Concentration Quotes - Page 13

• True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Unbroken, Awareness

  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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• Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this can happen even if the child merely becomes aware of being watched. After all, we too sometimes feel unable to go on working if someone comes to see what we are doing. The great principle which brings success to the teacher is this: as soon as concentration has begun, act as if the child does not exist. Naturally, one can see what he is doing with a quick glance, but without his being aware of it.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Principles

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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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• It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

  Anne Frank

  Teenager, Single Mom, Inspiration

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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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• 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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• My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.

  William of Norwich

  Mother, Food, Keys

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• Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

  Lee Westwood

  Golf, Focus, Personality

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• The next point - that's all you must think about.

  Rod Laver

  Thinking, Focus, Tennis

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

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• If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.

  Ken Rosewall

  Moving, Player, Names

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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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• In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

  Will Durant

  Concentration Of Wealth, Numbers, Progressive Society

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

  Will Durant

  Views, Concentration Of Wealth, Economic History

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Art, Self, Useless

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• I don't have time to think about the false controversy.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Controversy, Time To Think

  "Rice defends Benghazi interviews" by Andrea Drusch, www.politico.com. December 22, 2013.

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• In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Running, Hands, America

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2013). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.7, Basic Books

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• Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Ambition, Russia

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• Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

  John D. Rockefeller

  Art, Mind, Done

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• Thought is energy.
  Active thought is active energy;
  concentrated thought is a concentrated energy.
  Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Energy, Purpose, Sith

  Charles F. Haanel (2016). “The Master Key System”, p.21, Charles F. Haanel

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• ...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Media, Hands, Groups

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• Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative.

  Judit Polgar

  Winning, Creative, Everyday

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• If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wisdom, Mind, Vex

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• What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

  Truman Capote

  Reality, Mentor, Fantastic

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• The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy.

  Alvin Toffler

  Wind, Organization, Mass Destruction

  "Future Speak". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. March 1, 1999.

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• Practice is not a matter of years and months. It is a matter of concentration.

  Koichi Tohei

  Years, Practice, Matter

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