The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.
Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.
You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.
The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.
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