306 Quotes About Concentration

To focus is to ignore.

Empower yourself and discover what you can do with your life through hard work, concentration and research

Maximize the time you have through hard work, concentration and research

The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.

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

Meditation disciplines the mind, sharpens concentration and improves memory. It also energises body and mind.

The concentration of a baby is alive wonderment. It is to that kind of organic interest, or passion, and awareness that Toni [Packer] seems to be pointing: listening that is not rote or methodical in any way. The baby has no sense yet of self-image, of itself as an object—a person—who needs to be improved, and Toni will question any meditation practice that contributes to such a picture.

Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift -- to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of calm and attentive thought. In arguing that books are archaic and dispensable, Federman and Shirky provide the intellectual cover that allows thoughtful people to slip comfortably in the permanent state of distractedness that defines the online life.

The focusing power of attention never fails.It is the secret of success.Concentrate. Then go after what you want.