Concentrating Quotes - Page 8

• When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if you become a person two or three sizes bigger than your ordinary physical self, and that you are flowing with all your being toward the object of your concentration. Whether it is a physical thing or an image that you are concentrating on, your whole invisible person will be in movement.

  Michael Chekhov

  Self, Two, Expansion

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• Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Playing Chess, Limits

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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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• Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Numbers, Causes

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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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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• Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

  Oliver Kahn

  Games, Complaining, Helping

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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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• 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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• I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

  Eric Shanteau

  Swimming, Looking Forward, Pool

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• You must do everything you can to make your appearance pleasing, but the minute you walk out the door, forget yourself and start concentrating on others.

  Susan W. Tanner

  Doors, Forget You, Appearance

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• I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

  Ornette Coleman

  Moving On, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

  Harold Geneen

  Yesterday, Needs, Today

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• When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a stone, and I thought, 'Oh my God, if he doesn't like it I'm dead.' ... And then finally, after 25 minutes he started to talk back to the screen. I heard him say 'That's right. That's the truth.' .

  Taylor Hackford

  Rays, Pieces, Stones

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• Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed -- we are going somewhere. By focusing our efforts to a single point, we achieve the greatest results. The first rule of success, and the one that supercedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

  Michael Korda

  Husband, Keys, Doors

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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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• I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

  Big Pun

  Rapper, Hip Hop, Proud

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

  Bertrand Russell

  Achievement, Essentials, Able

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.160, Routledge

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