Concentration Quotes

She was dark-haired, fierce; she wore two drop earrings made of crystal; her face was a pure oval tickled with dimples; her skin was golden; and her laugh was like a fire in the night. But on her face you could also read the concentration of a soul whose life is entirely inward, and a mischievous gravity which acquires a silver patina with age.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Brendan Francis

If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

A full mind is an empty baseball bat.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Lord Chesterfield

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Lady Bird Johnson

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth bases loaded no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Logan Pearsall Smith

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do and not these fifty things I dabble in.

Dwight L. Moody

A single idea if it is right saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Jacques Maritain

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Søren Kierkegaard

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Marcus Aurelius

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them and are energetic persevering and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Walter J. Johnston

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

Franklin P. Adams

When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.

Lord Chesterfield

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow to live an eternity in an hour.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

Charles Lingsley

Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Luciano Pavarotti

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

You can't ring the bells and at the same time walk in the procession.

Spanish Proverb

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

Do whatever you do intensely.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

Johann von Goethe

One arrow does not bring down two birds.

Turkish Proverb

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

Euripides

One cannot both feast and become rich.

Ashanti proverb

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

G.K. Chesterton

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publilius Syrus

I like to laugh but on the court it is my work. I try to smile but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball not on my face.

Successful minds work like a gimlet to a single point.

Christian Bovee

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

Chinese Proverb

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Plato

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

Bible

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

Stephen McKenna

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point and to go directly to that point looking neither to the right nor the left.

William Matthews

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

Sir Walter Scott

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

Bertrand Russell

If there is anything that can be called genius it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

If you don't concentrate you'll end up on your rear.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

For him who has no concentration there is no tranquility.

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and "remembers" what it just read because it's still there, on the page, simultaneously. If you want to, you can reread any line instantly; or linger; or speed up; or optically "flinch." Reading a series of tweets is more like looking through a narrow window from a train speeding through a landscape full of tunnels and bands of light and dark. Each tweet erases its predecessor.

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

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

When Manya read, there was no waking her from her absorption; she heard nothing. A whole household might plan to tease and make a noise like all the zoos let loose with tin cans to play with and yet Manya wouldn't hear till her book was done. That was concentration and it was a joyful gift to have seized from the lucky-bag of life.

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