Concentration Quotes

• The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

  Jim Rohn

  Advice, Subjects, Wherever You Are

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 01, 2017

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• Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspiring, Secret, Energy

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 31, 2013

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• Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

  Ray Knight

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Athlete

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• It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Doors, Decision, Political

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• If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

  Levon Helm

  Song, Heart, Play

  FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Apr 24, 2014

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  We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

  Serena Williams

  Gun, Focus, Tennis

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• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Spiritual, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2016

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• This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

  Byron Dorgan

  Ownership, Galloping, Unhealthy

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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

  Chris Evert

  Focus And Concentration, Games, Tennis

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• Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Focus And Concentration, Victory

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• Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

  Lisa Bonet

  Black, Prison, Latino

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

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• While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Play, Progress, Trying

  "The Quality of Mercy".

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• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Sacrifice, Self

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.

  Morris Graves

  Moving, Mind, Wish

  "Chinese Painting: Leading Masters and Principles". Book by Osvald Sirén, Volume 2, p. 14, 1974.

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• The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

  Elia Kazan

  Essence, Movement, Action

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• When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Strength, Power, Focus And Concentration

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• When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.

  Jim Rohn

  Work, Play, Two

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 13, 2017

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• The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.

  Menachem Begin

  Army, Honest, Egyptian

  Menachem Begin's speech at the National Defense College, www.nytimes.com. August 8, 1982.

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Funny, Business

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

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• The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Keys, Focus, House

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.67, editionNEXT.com

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  Don't dwell on what went wrong.
  Instead, focus on what to do next.
  Spend your energies on moving forward
  toward finding the answer.

  Denis Waitley

  Success, Moving On, Letting Go

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• Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

  Sanford Meisner

  Broken, Acting, Plates

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• We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Ions, Giving, Water

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• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  Ralph Merkle

  Yield, Looks, Acres

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 1 - July 31, 2000.

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