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• And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

  Lord Acton

  Peace, Men, Hands

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• When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  War, Writing, Two

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• But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

  Hans Kung

  Meaningful, Space, Add

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• Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

  Edwin Moses

  Motivational, Inspirational Sports, Athlete

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• Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

  James Dean

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Media, Danger, Produce

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

  Harold Geneen

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time.

  Henry Moore

  Memories, Artist, Two

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• Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Believe, Media

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• I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

  Sylvia Porter

  Writing, Names, Noise

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• Look that nothing live in thy working mind, but a naked intent stretching into God.

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  Mind, Naked, Looks

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• Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

  Robert Henri

  Eye, Lines, Features

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.245, Basic Books

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• When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

  Luc Tuymans

  Painting, Intensity, Feels

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• If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Communication, Responsibility, Expression

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• We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

  Norman Doidge

  Lasting Change, Brain, Attention

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• Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Reality, Mind

  Ramana Maharshi (2014). “Essence of Instruction (Upadesa Saram): The Pine Forest Revisited”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

  Haruki Murakami

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• Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

  Chuck Norris

  Athlete, Sweat, Champion

  Chuck Norris, Joe Hyams (1989). “The secret of inner strength: my story”, Diamond Books

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• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stress, Holiday, Vacation

  "Cool Memories".

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• At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.

  Nick Cave

  Wisdom, Art, Focus And Concentration

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• There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.

  Benjamin Creme

  Inspiration, Illumination, Meditation

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• Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

  Ian Gawler

  Future, Past, Goal

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• One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

  Stephen Spender

  Different, Genius, Way

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