Concentration Quotes - Page 3

• The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Important, Would Be

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

  Erich Fromm

  Reality, Unimportant Things, Littles

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Differences, Attention, Centre

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• If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.

  Xunzi

  Years, Two, Wish

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• Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Kindness, Promise

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• The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mind

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

  Lord Acton

  Peace, Men, Hands

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• It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Groups, Responsible

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• Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

  James Dean

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Men, Existence

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Teenage, Blessing, Thinking

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• Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

  Robert Reich

  Concentration Of Wealth, Democracy, Concerned

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

  Leonard Maltin

  United States, Palaces, Los Angeles

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• But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

  Hans Kung

  Meaningful, Space, Add

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• You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Long, Waiting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Media, Danger, Produce

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way

  Steve Wozniak

  Real, Engineering, Focus

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• When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  War, Writing, Two

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• Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

  Hans Frank

  Police, Matter, Administration

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• The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Execution, United States, Nazi

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, p. 329, 2004.

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• Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Discipline

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• The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

  John Boyd Orr

  Real, Evil, Police

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• I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

  Virginia Woolf

  Glowing, Romance, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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• No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

  Albert Speer

  Mean, Order, Doubt

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