Concentration Quotes - Page 36

• Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Meditation, Mind

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Hate, Exercise, Skins

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Nazi, Communist, Social

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Independent, People, Benefits

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.176, Random House

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• My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me. While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration. Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.

  Aga Khan IV

  Art, Book, Past

  "My Beloved Grandfather: A few words by Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan IV". www.amaana.org. November 1977.

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• An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march.

  Simon Blackburn

  Sweat, Essentials, Gone

  Simon Blackburn (2003). “Ethics: A Very Short Introduction”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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• Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

  Ferran Adria

  Appreciate, Kitchen, Want

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• Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

  David Harvey

  Financial, Finance, Capitalism

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Some European countries insist on saying that during World War II, Hitler burned millions of Jews and put them in concentration camps. Any historian, commentator or scientist who doubts that is taken to prison or gets condemned. Although we don't accept this claim, if we suppose it is true... If the Europeans are honest they should give some of their provinces in Europe - like in Germany, Austria or other countries - to the Zionists and the Zionists can establish their state in Europe. You offer part of Europe and we will support it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, War, Taken

  "Iran Prez: Move Israel To Europe". www.cbsnews.com. December 8, 2005.

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• I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Art, School, College

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• When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.

  Ken Livingstone

  Power, Worst Nightmares, People

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• I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

  Joseph Mawle

  Children, Struggle, Teaching

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

  Elie Wiesel

  Killers, Victim, Camps

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• The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

  Morris Graves

  Flow, Painting, Language

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• I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

  Natalia Makarova

  Preparation, Theatre, Four

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• Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Persistence, Difficulty

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• Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Degrees, Enthusiasm, Impossible

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• My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

  Andy Warhol

  Photography, Artist, Ideas

  Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello (1979). “Andy Warhol's exposures”

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  Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

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• There is no greater block to world peace or inner peace than fear. What we fear we tend to develop an unreasoning hatred for, so we come to hate and fear. This not only injures us psychologically and aggravates world tension, but through such negative concentration we tend to attract the things we fear. If we fear nothing and radiate love, we can expect good things to come. How much this world needs the message and example of love and of faith!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Hate, Block, Hatred

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• The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it.

  Phillip Thomas

  Strong, Style, Rowing

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• I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Coffee, Writing, Sunday

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• Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Meditation, Each Day

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• A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Mind, Study

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• There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

  Joe Bradley

  Different, Painting, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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