306 Quotes About Concentration

The talent of the strategist is to identify the decisive point and to concentrate everything on it, removing forces from secondary fronts and ignoring lesser objectives.

To combat [the dissipated] mind throughEFFECTIVE concentration is the essential first step in the ability to accomplish one’s needs and one’s desires.

To combat [the dissipated mind] through EFFECTIVE concentration is the essential first step in the ability to accomplish one’s needs and one’s desires.

One pointedness of mind requires tremendous effort, but once its acquired, tremendous work can be done in minimal effort.

Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes.

Too much concentration belittles life. Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind - but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life.

You cannot hit two targets with one arrow. If your thoughts stray, you miss your enemies’ heart. Mind and arrow must become one.

She had been fair at drawing before the war. She’d drawn her mother dozens of times, as she sat reading or sewing. There had been so many things in those days that kept a person still, that required perfect concentration for hours on end. It had been easy to draw portraits.

I'm useless at concentrating on physical things.