Concentration Quotes - Page 14

• Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Squad, Pressure

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.113, Penguin

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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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• 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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• A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.

  Gautama Buddha

  Effort, Attention, Pay

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• I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

  Roddy McDowall

  Children, Believe, Boys

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• Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

  Peter Drucker

  Keys, Effectiveness, Priorities

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• Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

  Plato

  Success, Failure, Men

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• To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

  George Orwell

  Freedom, Gun, Hollywood Films

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Happiness, War, Difficult

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• Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

  Pedro Martinez

  Games, Littles, Helping

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• Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhism

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• Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Winning

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• Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Interesting, Boring, Made

  Hilaire Belloc (1938). “Stories, essays, and poems”

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• Only by advocating 'politically unrealistic' CO2 concentrations can runaway global warming be avoided. But what is politically realistic for humans is whollymunrelated to what is physically realistic for the planet.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Global Warming, Realistic

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• What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Discovery

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• It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Self, Goal, Effort

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2013). “Flow: The Psychology of Happiness”, p.42, Random House

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• You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

  Tom Lehrer

  Fun, Stupid, Thinking

  "Stop clapping, this is serious". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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