Concentrates The Mind Quotes

#1. Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

Tim Wu

#2. I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

Ariana Grande

#3. To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

Karl A. Menninger

#4. And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Paradox is the sharpest scalpel in the satchel of science. Nothing concentrates the mind as effectively, regardless of whether it pits two competing theories against each other, or theory against observation, or a compelling mathematical deduction against ordinary common sense.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

#7. I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#8. The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Richard J. Foster

#9. Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

Rajneesh

#10. To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

Robert Henri

#11. Translation, an archaic way of silencing, marginalizing or disowning other people's originality, must come to an end.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#12. One book at a time ... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.

Bernard Cornwell

#13. The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Elbert Hubbard

#14. The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face al Qaeda.

Roger Ailes

#15. They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

Samuel Johnson

#17. Pain concentrates the mind. Pain tethers you to this world, and the rope is a stout one. But at the same time, the grace of God enables you to look along the pain, to look down the entire length of the trial, and to see the purpose and point of it all.

Douglas Wilson

#18. Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Jasper Fforde

#19. Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Johnson

#20. The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

A. N. Wilson