Concentration Quotes - Page 8

• The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Men, Mind

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• Ice is remarkable in many ways. A simple experiment one can do at home is to add salt to an amount of water in different concentrations. For example, one can mimic the concentration of the ocean, or one can make it even saltier.

  Ira Flatow

  Ocean, Home, Simple

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Pockets, Study

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• I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism.

  Elif Safak

  Government, Democracy, Majority

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.

  William P. Perry

  Believe, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.empressbooks.com

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• Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Lesson Learned, Lessons, Stage

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• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

  Peter McWilliams

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Countries were told they had no incentives because of social ownership. The solution was privatization and profit, profit, profit. Privatization would replace inefficient state ownership, and the profit system plus the huge defense cutbacks would let them take existing resources and an increase in consumption. Worries about distribution and competition or even concerns about democratic processes being undermined by excessive concentration of wealth could be addressed later.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Worry, Competition

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• Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.

  Diego Della Valle

  Country, Circles, Paper

  "Captain Italia" by Alessandra Ilary, www.townandcountrymag.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We have seen the Truth. We have felt the Truth. But the most important thing is to grow into the Truth and become totally one with the Truth. If we are concentrating on God, we may feel God right in front of us or besides us. When we are meditating, we are bound to feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality within us. But when we are contemplating, we will see that we ourselves are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Important, Infinity

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.265, Aum Publications

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• The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Eight, Giving, Effort

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• A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Life, Blow, Wind

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• Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

  Maria Montessori

  Method, Parts Of Life, Consequence

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• My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

  Dan Flavin

  Blessed, Icons, Light

  Corinna Thierolf, Dan Flavin, Johannes Vogt (2009). “Dan Flavin: Icons”, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

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• I have to stay concentrated. I have to maintain focus and concentration. I can't get ahead of myself. I give 100 percent in training and in the ring. I always want to put on a great fight for the fans.

  Leo Santa Cruz

  Fighting, Focus And Concentration, Giving

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• Difficulties with material things often come to remind us that our concentration should be on spiritual things instead of material things. Sometimes difficulties of the body come to show that the body is just a transient garment, and that the reality is the indestructible essence which activates the body. But when we can say, 'Thank God for problems which are sent for our spiritual growth.' They are no longer problems. They then become opportunities.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Reality

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.60, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Cutting, Reality, Effort

  "The Buddha’s Five Protections - Part 2" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2010.

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• Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.

  Russell Sherman

  Art, Reflection, Essence

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• Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Different, World

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• The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Faith, Passion

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.154, Lulu.com

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• Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

  John D. Rockefeller

  Art, Mind, Done

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• We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Determination, Cells

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• The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  House, Community, Politics

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• Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Hurt, Father

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• Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Prayer, Fall, Godly

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.219, Penguin

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