Top 52 Quotes About Concentration And Focus
#1. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#2. Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a dysfunctional aggression that vacillates between repellent and endearingly quirky. It's intimidating to outsiders, and it feeds on sacrifice.
Amanda Petrusich
#3. If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.
Sivananda
#4. 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
#5. It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.
David Sanborn
#6. Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.
Andrew Weil
#7. As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.
Al Oerter
#8. For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.
Joseph Epstein
#9. He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision
concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.
Agatha Christie
#10. Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.
Cesar Chavez
#11. Make it a point to get to the real point, though at some point in time you may not get the point; just keep your focus on the main point and you shall definitely score a point in the end!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#12. You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.
Brad Alan Lewis
#13. I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
Mickey Rourke
#14. To excel in any walk of life, any stage of life, you need to have the two traits of focus and concentration to compliment
David Hewitt
#15. Get tuned in to the goals created from each dream and stay focused. You might miss the goals if you are not focused.
Israelmore Ayivor
#17. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.
John Sarbanes
#19. 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
#20. When your drive is moving your purpose, focus must hold the wheels else your might miss the way. And do you know what that means? Avoid Crash!!!. Stay focused!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. 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
#22. If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover.
Winifred Gallagher
#23. As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.
Colin Baker
#24. All our focus and strength must be concentrated on striving to fulfill the will of God for our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#25. If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test reality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan.
Stanley Greenspan
#26. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. Success in anything is about focus and concentration. When I coached, I'd say to the players, 'Yes, I know you played hard, but that's not good enough. You've got to stay focused on the task at hand the entire game.'
Rick Barry
#28. Samadhi. Immersed in concentration and meditation, all thoughts and distractions far away. Your focus steady, you achieve samadhi. All that exists is the heart of the experience. There is no one meditating, no one concentrating, only awareness. There is no yogi, only the yoga. (3)
Alberto Villoldo
#29. I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But that's good, too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.
Stephen Lang
#30. People getting their mercury fillings removed report immediate and dramatic changes in focus, attention, memory, concentration.
David Goodman
#31. Concentration's like a shower. You don't turn it on until you want to bathe ... You don't walk out of the shower and leave it running. You turn it off, you turn it on ... It has to be fresh and ready when you need it.
Garfield Sobers
#32. With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.
Andre Holland
#33. The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
Harrison Ford
#34. Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
Willie Sutton
#35. When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim.
Dwyane Wade
#36. If you will reach your dream land as sooner as possible you have to leave everything behind and fix your eyes on one thing; the journey ahead!
Israelmore Ayivor
#37. The secret for mastery is concentration; the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master!
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.
James Arthur Ray
#40. I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.
Steve Wozniak
#41. When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
Michael LeBoeuf
#42. Whatever is difficult can be done with regular attention and actions. Stay focused.
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
Damian Lewis
#44. The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.
William Mathews
#45. Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.
Frederick Lenz
#46. If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
#47. I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.
Wladimir Klitschko
#48. It's not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sevens successively from 100 and, if you keep your focus on the task, your chatter zone goes quiet.
Daniel Goleman
#50. Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.
Dustin Diamond
#51. Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
Jamais Cascio
#52. Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.
Shunryu Suzuki
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