Concentration Quotes - Page 24

• I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.

  Robert Barry

  Brother, School, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that variety is more visible. You walk the streets and there are people of every color, shape and size, ethnic background, religion, it doesn't matter. It's always present.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  New York, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.eldiariony.com

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• If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Dream, Cells, Practice

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change". Interview with Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

  Patanjali

  Oil, Meditation, Flow

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• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

  Patanjali

  Dream, Heart, Giving

  Alice Bailey, Patanjali (2012). “The Light of the Soul: Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali”, p.21, Lucis Publishing Companies

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• A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

  Lewis Mumford

  Enough, Symbols

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• When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Writing, Thinking, Focus And Concentration

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• In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  People, Degrees, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot.

  Shelby Harris

  Motor Vehicles, Attention, Able

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

  Robert Capa

  Devil, Care, Photographer

  Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.245, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

  Diogenes

  Inspirational, Two, Listening

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• It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Movement, Significant

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• He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfect, Cooking, Mind

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• Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Fighting, Two

  "Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Wisdom, Perseverance

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• The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

  Hugh Prather

  Simple, Simplicity, Quality

  Hugh Prather (2002). “How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy”, p.230, Conari Press

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• To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

  Brendon Burchard

  Meaningful, Focus And Concentration, Challenges

  Brendon Burchard (2012). “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

  Woody Allen

  Dying, Life Is Like, Camps

  "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger". Comedy, Drama, Romance, 2010.

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• I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Mother, Children, Dark

  "It's a wrap". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2006.

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• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

  William Feather

  Jobs, Work, Forget

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• But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Art, Years

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• For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.

  Terence McKenna

  Hallucinogens, Reason, Plant

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• A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.

  Stephen Spender

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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