Concentrating Quotes - Page 6

• One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the heart's ocean of bliss.

  Jaideva Singh

  Ocean, Yoga, Heart

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

  Robert Cialdini

  Trying, Tasks, Attention

  Robert B. Cialdini (1988). “Influence: science and practice”, Pearson Scott Foresman

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• Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Investing, Buffets

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• I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Writing, Special, Trying

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• Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

  Annie Chapman

  Mean, Simple, Light

  Annie Chapman (2005). “Simplify Your Hectic Life”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Persistence, Rocks

  "The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

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• Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Skills, Meditation, Mind

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Player, Meditation

  Harvey Penick (2011). “The Game for a Lifetime: More Lessons and Teachings”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.

  Lisa Williams

  People, Complaining, Easy

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• We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Attention, Wavering, Fool

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.13, Rodale

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• Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We have seen the Truth. We have felt the Truth. But the most important thing is to grow into the Truth and become totally one with the Truth. If we are concentrating on God, we may feel God right in front of us or besides us. When we are meditating, we are bound to feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality within us. But when we are contemplating, we will see that we ourselves are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Important, Infinity

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.265, Aum Publications

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• Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Unique, Expression

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• In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Hygiene, Best Effort

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.

  James G. Watt

  America, Government, Work Ethic

  U.S. News and World Report, November 11, 1985.

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• If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

  John C. Maxwell

  Energy, Needs, Attention

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (1997). “Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others”, p.86, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Differences, People

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• It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Jobs, Goal

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Character, Use

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• The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.

  Erwin Rommel

  Art, Military, Enemy

  "Europe Since 1914". Book by Gordon Alexander Craig, 1966.

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• Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Russia, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.205, Cambridge University Press

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• That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.

  Kasey Keller

  Ready, Travesty, Has Beens

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• We must stop concentrating on our differences and look for what we have in common.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Differences, Looks, Common

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• We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Differences, Focus, Full Potential

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