Concentrating Quotes - Page 9

• When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, World

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• When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Doors, Office, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I should be concentrating on writing pages.

  R. L. Stine

  Writing, Pages, Should

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  This Generation, Negative, Generations

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• I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

  Martina Navratilova

  Focus, Trying, Motivational Tennis

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• It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

  Linus Torvalds

  Personality, Boring, Found

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• I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

  Tia Carrere

  Wonderful, Wonderful Experience, Wonderful Things

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Memories, Terrible

  "The world according to Vivienne Westwood" By Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2009.

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• Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

  Tennessee Williams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

  Jodi Picoult

  Expectations, What If, World

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Naked, Body

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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• A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

  David Lynch

  Hate, Thinking, Painting

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• I like to address all parts of my game, but I'm really concentrating a lot of time with my coach, David Whelan, on my short game and on the greens.

  Paula Creamer

  Games, Addresses, Coaches

  "Q&A With LPGA Star Paula Creamer". Interview with Neil Sagebiel, bleacherreport.com. February 3, 2009.

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• The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

  Gisele Bundchen

  Baby, Powerful, Pain

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• When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

  Albert Brooks

  Good Day, Kids, Good Years

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• Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Effort, Today

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• There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Yaks, Geek

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• Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

  Robert Caro

  Beautiful, Ballet, Faces

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• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Attitude, Kids, People

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• I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

  Joan Jett

  Being Happy, Spiritual, Stay Strong

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• When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

  Penn Jillette

  Kids, Race, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

  Bobby Jones

  Inspirational, Sports, Thinking

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• I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Attitude, People

  Hugh Marlais Davies, Francis Bacon (2001). “Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953”, Museum of Contemporary Art San

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• Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.

  Milton Friedman

  Exercise, Men, Hands

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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