Concentration Quotes - Page 10

• The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Success, Effort

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.109, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Realization, Quiet

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• Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Heart, Ignorance

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• Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.

  Denis Waitley

  Focus And Concentration, Goal, Energy

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• Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Judgment

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• Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

  Leon Trotsky

  Character, Past, Roots

  "Trotsky : The Eternal Revolutionary" Dmitri Volkogonov, (p. 213), 1996.

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• As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

  Al Oerter

  Focus And Concentration, Long, Calm

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• N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Boys, Years, Peaceful

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• The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

  Og Mandino

  Wind, Sailor, Port

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.113, Bantam

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• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

  Cyril Connolly

  Pain, Grief, Doe

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  Dana Spiotta

  Book, Thinking, People

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• The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

  Og Mandino

  Work, Wind, Support

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.113, Bantam

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• Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

  Felix Morley

  Opposites, Political, Federalism

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• We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Numbers, Atmosphere

  "Reading Prose: An Introduction to Critical Study". Book by T. S. Eliot (p. 505), 1952.

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• One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

  William Matthews

  Law, Energy, Attention

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• Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Player, Emotional, Giving

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• The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

  Nhat Hanh

  Joy, Enlightenment, Energy

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• The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Meditation, Mind

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• Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness. It is not concentration. While listening to me you are listening to the birds singing in the trees too. The wind passing through the trees singing its song - you are open to it too. The aeroplane passing by, or the train - you are open to it too. This is meditation - you are simply open, available, conscious, available, all doors are open.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Mean, Doors

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• I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

  Diane Sawyer

  Thinking, Listening, Literature

  Attributed in "Do: Meditations for Brides" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 9), 1993.

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• This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

  Strom Thurmond

  Government, Temptation, Bills

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• From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.

  Pete du Pont

  Nazi Concentration Camps, Fields, Gulags

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• I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't see the point of using violence to oppose violence, but many people would and the Brotherhood know that. For this reason they want an unarmed population. Adolph Hitler introduced gun laws shortly before he began to transport people to his concentration camps.

  David Icke

  Thinking, Gun, Law

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on the contrary, he has been trying to drop all barriers so that he becomes totally available to existence. Watch... existence is simultaneous. I am speaking here and the traffic noise is simultaneous. The train, the birds the wind blowing through the trees - in this moment the whole of existence converges. You listening to me, I speaking to you, and millions of things going on - it is tremendously rich.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Wind Blowing, Bird

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• To help your concentration, don't take too much time.

  Pam Barnett

  Golf, Too Much, Helping

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