Concentration Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Discipline

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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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• One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

  Luc Tuymans

  Painting, Intensity, Feels

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• One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

  Stephen Spender

  Different, Genius, Way

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• At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

  Nick Cave

  Wisdom, Art, Focus And Concentration

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• Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Believe, Media

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• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stress, Holiday, Vacation

  "Cool Memories".

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• Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

  Ian Gawler

  Future, Past, Goal

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• If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Communication, Responsibility, Expression

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• Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Reality, Mind

  Ramana Maharshi (2014). “Essence of Instruction (Upadesa Saram): The Pine Forest Revisited”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Look that nothing live in thy working mind, but a naked intent stretching into God.

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  Mind, Naked, Looks

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• To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, Mean, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1983). “The Flame of Attention”, p.28, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

  Robert Henri

  Eye, Lines, Features

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.245, Basic Books

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• Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

  Haruki Murakami

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• Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

  Chuck Norris

  Athlete, Sweat, Champion

  Chuck Norris, Joe Hyams (1989). “The secret of inner strength: my story”, Diamond Books

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• We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

  Norman Doidge

  Lasting Change, Brain, Attention

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• The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time.

  Henry Moore

  Memories, Artist, Two

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• I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

  Sylvia Porter

  Writing, Names, Noise

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