Concentration Quotes - Page 31

• Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness.

  Michael Atherton

  Grumpiness, Sometimes, Mistaken

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• Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

  Napoleon Hill

  Secret, Matter, Way

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• Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.

  Norman Foster

  People, Want, Towers

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• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

  Samantha Power

  Ears, Surgeons

  "Samantha Power delivers commencement at Occidental College, June 11, 2011" by Andrew Glass, www.politico.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.

  Alice Waters

  Thinking, Slow Food, Care

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• The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

  Martin Buber

  Fusion, Becoming, Accomplished

  "I and Thou". Book by Martin Buber, 1923.

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• The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

  Aleister Crowley

  Yoga, Hands, Two

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• I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration span, it seemed to suit my personal style of performance, and I have fallen in love with film acting.

  Ron Perlman

  Style, Acting, Suits

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Home, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

  Roger Ebert

  Writing, Trouble, Zone

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert”, p.439, University of Chicago Press

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• Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

  Alan Lowenthal

  Temperature, Climate, Deny

  "Climate Change: Case Closed" by Rep. Alan Lowenthal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

  Vijender Singh

  Needs, Lapses, Olympics

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• Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

  Stanley Milgram

  Concentration Camp, Camps

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.11, HarperCollins

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• I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

  Sadie Jones

  Noise, Cafes, Study

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• My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.

  Brian Tracy

  Teaching, Writing, Focus And Concentration

  Source: ceotraining.com

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• I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music.

  Steve Reich

  Country, Cities, Years

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of such far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Rights, Years, Freedom Of Speech

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Successful, Men

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• The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Hate, Differences

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• ...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.

  May Sarton

  Sex, Writing, Two

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• Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

  Woody Allen

  Here And There, Way, Life Is

  "On Being Funny: Woody Allen and Comedy". Book by Eric Lax, 1975.

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• Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

  Martina Navratilova

  Motivational, Sports, Practice

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• Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.

  Novalis

  God, Spiritual, Moving

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 2, 1798.

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• Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

  James F. Cooper

  Powerful, Men, Class

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• I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Art, Play, World

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