Concentrating Quotes

#1. I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

Ornette Coleman

#2. We dedicate most of the time worrying about our deficiencies and self-criticism instead of concentrating on our goals and believing in our destination

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

Tia Carrere

#4. If we spent the majority of our focus just concentrating on our side of the street, not so much on what the next guy is doing, I think I'd get a lot more done - we'd all get a lot more done - and we'd probably have a lot less criticism for everybody else.

Grant Bowler

#5. Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration ... tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

Francis Bacon

#6. If I am preoccupied with the changes my storm has created and concentrating on my scars, I will not be able to recognize Jesus.

Jan Harrison

#7. I began seriously concentrating on music study after I entered senior high school. I went to a class in the arts section at the YMCA and learned music theory and composition. Today, there are many classes like this available, but this was not so much the case in those days.

Isao Tomita

#8. Instead of concentrating just on finding good answers to questions, it's more important to learn how to find good questions!

Donald E. Knuth

#9. Any Arthurian enthusiast who has watched 'Merlin' has probably concluded that it's not accurate whatsoever - but, it's not meant to be. It's not meant to be a true telling. It's in a fantasy setting, it's really concentrating on the fantasy element.

Colin Morgan

#10. I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track.

Rahki

#11. Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

Annie Chapman

#12. Start dream building. Raise your standards to excellence. Imagine yourself at your best and work on self-improvement. Transform yourself to a higher state of being, by concentrating on becoming excellent at what you want.

Mark LaMoure

#13. Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

Troy Vincent

#14. women could never be in the space program, since in zero G a woman's breasts would bounce and keep the men from concentrating.

Julie Phillips

#15. I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

Robin Green

#16. I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#17. During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

Ching Hai

#18. Concentrating when it's the hardest is what builds character

Barbara Delinsky

#19. Liberals have shifted government into a position of being neutral between right and wrong. By concentrating power in government institutions, liberals chisel at the three pillars of society: the family unit, work ethic and faith. That's not good for America.

James G. Watt

#20. It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.

Lisa Williams

#21. We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.

John Mica

#22. If you are constantly looking over your shoulder at the competition you are not concentrating on the path ahead

Leonie Mateer

#23. I find theatre easier than films, because it gives you an environment of a dark hall, the audience concentrating with you ... whereas, film sets are not conducive to long rehearsals, and it is difficult to pick up the emotions amidst all that is going on around you.

Randeep Hooda

#24. Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Bobby Jones

#25. As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

Joyce Meyer

#26. There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers ... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

Temple Grandin

#27. I must commit myself to beginning each day by concentrating on positive thoughts and focusing on my goals.

Les Brown

#28. But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living

Andrew Flintoff

#29. The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

Dan Millman

#30. When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. Most of the time, I don't see the great catch or the long run. What I'm looking at is how the other team defended it.

Tom Landry

#31. The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

Anthony Robbins

#32. One of art photography's most vigorous enterprises
[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate
but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

Susan Sontag

#33. Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.

Jim Highsmith

#34. There are three particularly important issues involved in delivering customer value: focusing on innovation rather than efficiency and optimization, concentrating on execution, and lean thinking.

Jim Highsmith

#35. I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

Mark Haddon

#36. All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

Harvey Penick

#37. Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally.

Sergio Garcia

#38. Stop concentrating on the leaves concentrate on d root cause where they came from.Curse or bless d cause

Ikechukwu Joseph

#39. I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

Paulo Coelho

#40. You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

Brian McBride

#41. The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

Og Mandino

#42. When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

Sonia Sotomayor

#43. Such thinking is sheer speculation, but the laws of physics allow for the possibility of opening a hole in space by concentrating enough energy at a single point, until we access the space-time foam and wormholes emerge connecting our universe to a baby universe.

Michio Kaku

#44. We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#45. The enemy was not waiting for death, they hit back, concentrating all their fire on the cruiser Never Tell Me The Odds, knocking back that ship's shields and forcing it to break away.

Craig Alanson

#46. I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

Wayne Rooney

#47. I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

Paulo Coelho

#48. At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.

Lilian Jackson Braun

#49. God, but he lied beautifully; it was a masterclass. If I hadn't been concentrating so hard on my own deceit, I would have stood up and applauded.

Claire North

#50. I'm concentrating on singing so much. I don't think of anything else.

Tonya Mitchell

#51. That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.

Kasey Keller

#52. The important desideratum is freedom of the market; a country or region will often best develop, depending on conditions of resources or the market, by concentrating on one or two items and then exchanging them for other items produced elsewhere.

Murray Rothbard

#53. What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

Thomas Jefferson

#54. We should be concentrating on the invisible things, which we want to make visible because what we see now is temporary.

Sunday Adelaja

#55. If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

John C. Maxwell

#56. I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

Nellie McKay

#57. When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Donna Tartt

#58. I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Joan Jett

#59. On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

Eddie Van Halen

#60. Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.

Jackie Evancho

#61. Perhaps simple to be known, to be looked upon by so many people, to be the focal point of so many concentrating eyes, perhaps this was enough to make one different; enough to transform one into something else, someone else; just as by becoming and increasingly larger boy one became one day a man.

Ralph Ellison

#62. I should be concentrating on writing pages.

R.L. Stine

#63. What I'm saying is that preachers are like politicians. They choose what sin or crime they want to fight and they get their people riled up to do the same, making hate and fear. That hate and fear mask other things they should be concentrating on and it keeps people separate.

Rain Carrington

#64. It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

Lydia Ko

#65. Rather than concentrating on what you should have done, concentrate on what you can do now.

Rachel Van Dyken

#66. You must do everything you can to make your appearance pleasing, but the minute you walk out the door, forget yourself and start concentrating on others.

Susan W. Tanner

#67. Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.

Astro Teller

#68. A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

Bobby Jones

#69. The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

Gisele Bundchen

#70. Another time might be easier than this one, but there's only the time you're in, thinks Enid. And it's always going to be lacking somehow. Best to spend some of your moments here on earth noticing what else is here with you instead of concentrating solely on your own misery.

Helen Humphreys

#71. Eliza sitting naked on a pink towel. So beautiful I could die.

Concentrating, all focused in on her sketchbook, but aw, god ...her tail.

Her cute little tail moving slowly back and forth, making a fan shape in the dirt.

She's the one. She really is. I know that now.

Charles Burns

#72. You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Betty Cuthbert

#73. If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

Patti Smith

#74. Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

Vladimir Kramnik

#75. Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up.

Joyce Meyer

#76. moss that is concentrating on being green.

Jeanette Winterson

#77. I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.

Colm Toibin

#78. If you are thinking about mistakes during games then you are not concentrating on what is important which is the next shot or the next cross or whatever you have to deal with in that game. The mental side of things is massive, probably the biggest.

Shay Given

#79. What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.

Steve Martin

#80. Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

Kahlil Gibran

#81. I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

Martina Navratilova

#82. When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

Salman Rushdie

#83. They were concentrating first on the others. They got them more or less under control before they started in on everybody else.

Margaret Atwood

#84. Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority instead of concentrating on generating value for their users. This is worrisome because raising capital alone is misleading as a benchmark for success.

Jon Oringer

#85. Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

Michael Bassey

#86. Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.

Grete Waitz

#87. I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

Eddie Redmayne

#88. Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

#89. You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.

Sally Mann

#90. I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

George Balanchine

#91. When you have been concentrating so hard on something you can't stop and your brain gets to racing like a fly-wheel with the weight gone. You'd better just not think.

Ernest Hemingway,

#92. I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

Eric Shanteau

#93. I'm afraid I'll fall," I said, concentrating on walking straight.

"Don't worry. If you fall, I'll always be there to catch you.

Mia Kayla

#94. I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

Tony Bennett

#95. I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.

Sonu Nigam

#96. That's what happens when you're really concentrating. Time stands still. Time flies!

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#97. Ellie?" he said. Just the reflection of his ice-blue irises seared through me. "Do you know what's coming?" "Goodbye?" I said, only half-joking. Jubal smiled, concentrating again on the road. "Maybe not.

Jamie McGuire

#98. That's it ... I'm completely giving up on boys and concentrating on staying alive.

Samantha Young

#99. Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.

John McCarthy

#100. When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

Richey Edwards