Concentration Quotes - Page 17

• When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write just one scene where the audience is confused or it breaks their concentration in some way, then you've lost them, and you might never get them back.

  Salman Rushdie

  Confused, Writing, Might

  "Salman Rushdie brings 'Midnight's Children' to big screen". Interview with Matt Carey, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2013.

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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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• 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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• Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Energy, Waste, Distraction

  Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.43, Workman Publishing

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• Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.

  Huey Newton

  Taken, Men, Gun

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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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• I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.

  Isabel Allende

  War, Fighting, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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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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• [Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  Arnold Palmer

  Children, Golf, Simple

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Religious, Court Judges, Law Courts

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• If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

  Lord Hailsham

  Political, Dictatorship, Diffusion

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• When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

  Adolf Hitler

  Home, Holocaust, Age

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• Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know.

  Seth

  Men, Ties, Giving

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• Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

  Kathleen Norris

  Motivation, Writing, Discipline

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• If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

  David Mitchell

  Funny, Skills, Want

  "Fictional character: Mark Corrigan". TV Series "Peep Show" ("Dance Class", 2004), 2003-2015.

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• Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

  Steve McQueen

  Glasses, Broken, Racing

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• Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

  Graham Greene

  Prayer, Men, Class

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.

  John Olver

  Atmosphere, Energy, Climate

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• You shall become the person you are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jogging, Great Running, Distance Running

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

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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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• Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

  Hugh Prather

  Simplicity, Gentleness, Fearlessness

  Hugh Prather (2002). “How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy”, p.230, Conari Press

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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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