Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

I think he served very good the whole match, … I played very good with a lot of concentration.

And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.

The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is “passion”. When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

Whereas the Xerox researcher “was eager to juggle multiple threads of work simultaneously,” the skeptical questioner viewed his own work “as an exercise in solitary, singleminded concentration.” In the choices we have made, consciously or not, about how we use our computers, we have rejected the intellectual tradition of solitary, single-minded concentration, the ethic that...

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

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!

It is just game-by-game now. You have to win. My concentration level was high tonight. I’ve just got an aggressive mind-set right now. I didn’t really do anything differently tonight – still rebounded and drove to the hole.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

Get tuned in to the goals created from each dream and stay focused. You might miss the goals if you are not focused.

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...

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

You can set your mind to anything, just keep concentrating.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Drink my Distraction Juice (not from concentrate). It tastes like love, only not so focused on just one ingredient.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work … the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp … The cat will settle down...

The situation in the Netherlands could be quite explosive because of the huge concentration and numbers of poultry. It is worse than in other countries.

Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance… Love your zone!

It’s tough to have a four-goal lead, sometimes, because you lose your concentration and the other team takes a lot of chances. They got a lot of shots. We wanted to keep them on the outside as much as we could, and Marc-Andre was phenomenal.

To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

You prove to people that you don’t pay attention to their words when they see that you don’t remember what they tell you earlier.

Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is “FOCUS”…

When you fully focus your mind,you make others attracted to you.

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye “sees” the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and “remembers” what it just read because it’s still there, on the page, simultaneously. If you want to, you can reread any line instantly;...

so many people concentrate on looks, but the invisible is sacred

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

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to who was capable of understanding the complexity (simplicity) of the problem or the approaches to a tentative solution. There came...

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.

When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.

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.

To be great is not a word but work that makes a word.

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant...

My brain I’ll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

Enroll your body, soul and spirit and engage your time to do what you know best. Dedicate yourself to the work at hand and you will be rewarded by the fruits you will bear!

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization’s most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a...

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once.

INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a...

I don’t know what happened. I think we lost our concentration out there, especially in the fourth quarter.

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts

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!

Rituals involving strenuous and/or repetitive physical movements are meant to free the mind of all frivolous thoughts and divert the focus to the point of one-mindedness or absolute concentration.