Concentrating Quotes - Page 5

• It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?

  Natalie Dormer

  People, Half, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

  Rahki

  Track, Sample, Originals

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• If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Hair

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

  Bruno Walter

  Technique, Doe, Precision

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• As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Focus, How You Feel

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2012

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• In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Hygiene, Best Effort

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, War, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.

  Michael Korda

  Keys, Doors, Accomplishment

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• The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Differences, Way

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

  Russell Crowe

  Kind, Fame, Knows

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• I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.

  Sonu Nigam

  Looks, Levels

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• The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

  Dan Millman

  Fighting, Secret, Energy

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• If you're concentrating on climbing , you can't be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when you come back to deal with them, you have a better view of their reliative importance. Climbing puts things in perspective again.

  Jeff Lowe

  Climbing, Views, Wife

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• Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Unique, Expression

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• Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mind, Habit, Dependable

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

  Paulo Coelho

  Music, Eye, People

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• Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.

  William Deresiewicz

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  "Solitude and Leadership" by William Deresiewicz, theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2010.

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• I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me.

  Gabrielle Daleman

  Breathing, Yesterday, Days Off

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• This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Book, Practice, Numbers

  William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, Lulu.com

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• Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced meditators concentrating on emptiness can meditate on emptiness for a long time with little effort. Their minds soar through space-like emptiness, undistracted by any other phenomenon. When we meditate on emptiness we should try to emulate these meditators.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Eagles, Sky, Space

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.98, Tharpa Publications US

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• We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Passion, Individuality, Desire

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.124, re.press

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• I wasn't so stupid that I didn't realize the implications of what they were saying. In my live work I was going for the quick thrill, rather than spending time concentrating on my voice. I figured I'd get on, make as many quick movement as possible, dance my ass off for five minutes, move into the insult portion of the evening, and then, at the end, create some kind of chaos until the 55 minutes were up.

  Iggy Pop

  Stupid, Moving, Voice

  "New Again: Iggy Pop". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."

  Tom DeMarco

  Character, Dark, Technology

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• I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

  Tony Bennett

  Teacher, Art, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One hopes for that type of result but you just never know what factors will work in your favor. I think I just was concentrating on making the best film I could under the circumstances I was given. That's all I could really do.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Thinking, Favors, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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