Concentration Quotes - Page 7

• The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Childhood, France

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• Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

  Norman Jewison

  Stars, Actors, Movie Star

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• The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

  Friedrich List

  Agriculture, Growth, Increase

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• Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

  Ajay Naidu

  Summer, School, Ideas

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• I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

  Zane Grey

  Passion, Fire, Ready

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• I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

  Victor Garber

  Men, Energy, Complicated

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

  Helen Wills

  Games, Play, May

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• A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

  Lawrence LeShan

  Men, Able, Degrees

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• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Inspiration

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• The only prudence in life is concentration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Focus And Concentration, Prudence

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• On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 10, 2017

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• Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Numbers, Causes

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• I have to stay concentrated. I have to maintain focus and concentration. I can't get ahead of myself. I give 100 percent in training and in the ring. I always want to put on a great fight for the fans.

  Leo Santa Cruz

  Fighting, Focus And Concentration, Giving

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• Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.

  William P. Perry

  Believe, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.empressbooks.com

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• One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

  George Harrison

  Differences, Meditation, Connections

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Mind, Pockets, Study

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• The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Men, Mind

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• What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.

  Gabriel Orozco

  Rivers, Perception, Flow

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• My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

  Dan Flavin

  Blessed, Icons, Light

  Corinna Thierolf, Dan Flavin, Johannes Vogt (2009). “Dan Flavin: Icons”, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

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• Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

  David Eagleman

  Thinking, Brain, Mountain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.228, Vintage

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• Countries were told they had no incentives because of social ownership. The solution was privatization and profit, profit, profit. Privatization would replace inefficient state ownership, and the profit system plus the huge defense cutbacks would let them take existing resources and an increase in consumption. Worries about distribution and competition or even concerns about democratic processes being undermined by excessive concentration of wealth could be addressed later.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Worry, Competition

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• Difficulties with material things often come to remind us that our concentration should be on spiritual things instead of material things. Sometimes difficulties of the body come to show that the body is just a transient garment, and that the reality is the indestructible essence which activates the body. But when we can say, 'Thank God for problems which are sent for our spiritual growth.' They are no longer problems. They then become opportunities.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Reality

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.60, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.

  Denis Waitley

  Moving, Mean, Persistence

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Double Win”

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• Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Dream, Exercise, Vision

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• We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Cutting, Reality, Effort

  "The Buddha’s Five Protections - Part 2" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2010.

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