Concentration Quotes - Page 36

• History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Simple, Views, Understanding

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• How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Christian, Struggle, Effort

  "The Cathedral". The Atlantic Monthly, 1846.

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• The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

  Olive Schreiner

  Secret, Looks, Littles

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Father, Roles, Helping

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Meaningful, Exercise, People

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, staging.believermag.com. January 2009.

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• The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

  Oswald Chambers

  Abiding, Easy, Lifestyle

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.9, Discovery House

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• We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

  Kevin O'Leary

  Exercise, Long, Brain

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• Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

  Richard Serra

  Determination, Art, People

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• Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result.

  Roger Bannister

  Mind, Results, Performances

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• The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.

  Leopold Auer

  Eight, Practice, Play

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• I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Crush, Clay, Language

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.25, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Focus, Mind, Trying

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• I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones.

  Rineke Dijkstra

  Thinking, Degrees, Violence

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• But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Art, Years

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• For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.

  Terence McKenna

  Hallucinogens, Reason, Plant

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• A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.

  Stephen Spender

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Country, Color, America

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.144, One World

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• Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Party, Holocaust

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• Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me again, was it John Ashcroft or Fidel Castro who put H.I.V. sufferers in concentration camps?

  Ron Rosenbaum

  Evil, Perfect, Marxist

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• You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sleep, Fighting, Thinking

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• That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Vision, Purpose, Artistic

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.947, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

  Woody Allen

  Dying, Life Is Like, Camps

  "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger". Comedy, Drama, Romance, 2010.

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• The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

  Hugh Prather

  Simple, Simplicity, Quality

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

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• A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

  Lewis Mumford

  Enough, Symbols

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• The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

  Robert Capa

  Devil, Care, Photographer

  Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.245, Pickle Partners Publishing

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