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• Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

  Denis Waitley

  Perseverance, Mean, Giving

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• I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

  Diane Sawyer

  Thinking, Listening, Literature

  Attributed in "Do: Meditations for Brides" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 9), 1993.

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• Thought is energy.
  Active thought is active energy;
  concentrated thought is a concentrated energy.
  Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Energy, Purpose, Sith

  Charles F. Haanel (2016). “The Master Key System”, p.21, Charles F. Haanel

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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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• Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.

  Nolan Ryan

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  Nolan Ryan, Skip Bayless, Tom House (1991). “Nolan Ryan's Pitcher's Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Success, Effort

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.109, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Ignorance, People

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.659, Modern Library

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• As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

  Al Oerter

  Focus And Concentration, Long, Calm

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• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

  Chris Evert

  Wrestling, Games, Tennis

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• An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Enemy, Passing Away

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• I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

  John Lennon

  Drug, Dumb, Goes On

  John Lennon, Yōko Ono, David Sheff, G. Barry Golson (1981). “The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono”, Putnam Pub Group

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• This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  "Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

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• The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

  Og Mandino

  Wind, Sailor, Port

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.113, Bantam

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• A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Strong, Memories

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• The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Shapes, Lines

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• Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.

  Max Euwe

  Play, Weakness, Chess

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• The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to.

  Ludmilla Tourischeva

  Gymnastics, Trying, Moments

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• I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony.

  Max Bill

  Art, Ideas, Influence

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• Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Cat, Looks, Paws

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• We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Book, Fighting, Men

  "Message to the Booksellers of America" (1942)

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• The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any paradox in it. Consider the case of the worshipper. He approaches God and prays to be absorbed in Him. He then surrenders himself in faith and by concentration. And what remains afterwards? In the place of the original 'I', self-surrender leaves a residuum of God in which the 'I' is lost. That is the highest form of devotion or surrender and the peak of detachment.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Realization, Quiet

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• Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Spiritual, Heart, Ignorance

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• Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.

  Denis Waitley

  Focus And Concentration, Goal, Energy

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• Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.

  Clive Swift

  Sports, Moving, Player

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