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“In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.”

“In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and public apathy, Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.”

“World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached. Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.”

World Might Class Awareness Performances Constant Strive Disappear Concentration Target Gaps Repetition Vivid World Class

Author:Matthew Syed

“Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.”

Ifs Doe Excellence Mere Concentration Translate Matched

Author:Matthew Syed

“All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power - in the lawyers.”

Government Law Judging Concerned Lawyer Separation Concentration Separation Of Powers

Book:Woe to You Lawyers, Form #11.402

Source: Woe to You Lawyers, Form #11.402

“Focused mind power is one of the strongest forces on earth.”

Mind Earth Force Focused Concentration Strongest Power Of The Mind

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“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.”

People Knows Kind Self States Powerful Conditions Capable Majority Unexpected Concentration Regions Most Powerful Erotic Mixtures Spontaneity

Author:Peter Redgrove

“Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?”

“I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.”

Doe Matter Next Names Focus Highest Train Opponents Concentration

Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.”

Jobs Work Forget Trouble Concentration Concentrating Motivational Work

Author:William Feather

“Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.”

Consciousness Produce Punishment Resistance Concentration Alienation

Book:The Genealogy of Morals

Source: The Genealogy of Morals

“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.”

Ifs Mind Sun Focus Pieces Wonderful Paper Concentration Rays Lenses Cotton

Book:Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement

Source: Bliss Divine: A Book of Spiritual Essays on the Lofty Purpose of Human Life and the Means to Its Achievement

“...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.”

“Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.”

Knows Language Concentration English Words

Author:Elias Canetti

“Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.”

Body Reality Sex Sound Voice Fiction Seeds Cells Tone Concentration Episodes Germs Bursting Omnipotent

Book:Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

Source: Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

“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.”

Giving Dream Moving Justice Focus Sadness Excellence Track Intense Concentration Anticipation Lifelong Joyous

Author:Florence Griffith Joyner

“America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.”

Thinking Knows Way Ideas Funny America Next Nations Millions Humorous Ideology Concentration Camps Thank God Idealism Concentration Camp Sneaky Gulags

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some kind of problem with the steering, probably dead pedestrians lodged in the mechanism, the result being that there is a delay of 8 to 10 seconds between the time the driver turns the wheel and the time the taxi actually changes direction, a handicap that the driver is compensating for by going 175 miles per hour, at which velocity we are able to remain airborne almost to the far rim of some of the smaller potholes.”

“In God's vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.”

Heart Stills Mother Order Vision Meditation Achieve Asking Concentration

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Children, in the present dark age of materialism, chanting the mantra is the easiest way for us to obtain inner purification and concentration. Japa can be done at any time, anywhere, without observing any rule regarding the purity of mind and body. Japa can be done while engaged in any task.”

Way Mind Children Done Body Age Dark Meditation Tasks Engaged Purity Concentration Materialism Observing Mind And Body Dark Ages Mantras Purification Chanting

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting. Try also to inculcate in children the habit of chanting and neatly writing the mantra. This will help to improve their handwriting, too. The book in which the mantra is written should not be thrown around; it should be carefully kept in our meditation or shrine room.”

People Should Writing Trying Children Book Helping Rooms Practice Meditation Written Habit Pages Get Better Thrown Concentration Mantras Shrines Chanting Handwriting

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.”

Thinking Writing Wells Looks I Can Done Science Hours Love Is Minutes Activity Office Pages Fingers Look Up Concentration Interfere Typing

Author:Isaac Asimov

“If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.”

Ifs Years Looks Two Today Wish Thousand Concentration Thousand Years

Author:Xunzi

“By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.”

People Justice Asking Communism Concentration Idealism Severe Disadvantages Concentrating

Author:Ian Mcewan

“The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.”

Mind Film Media Television Offers Succeed Demand Mass Madness Aim Presses Radio Disaster Concentration Boss Distraction Maximum Antidote Mass Media Film And Television

Book:Art against ideology

Source: Art against ideology

“When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.”

Should Mind Mean Character Values Understanding Practice Walking Standing Relation Insight Realization Rising Concentration Serenity Tranquility Stopping

Author:Asvaghosa

“Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.”

Moving Break Subjects Needed Skills Musician Photographer Photograph Concentration Target Performers Sensitivity Session Reflexes Technicians

Book:Film Journal

Source: Film Journal

“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.”

Thinking Whole Actors Attention Focus Hardest Things To Do Concentration Hardest Thing Parting Steam Time To Think Small Parts Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Colin Baker

“After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day.”

Ifs Want Bigs Used Doors Minutes Brother One Day Criticism Surprise Concentration Host Mike Big Surprises

Author:Julie Chen

“This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.”

Concentration Ownership Unhealthy Galloping Galloping Horses

Author:Byron Dorgan

“I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.”

Thinking Writing Wells Moving Higher Paper Computer Fingers Screens Concentration Pens Keyboards Looking Down

Author:Joshua Ferris

“By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.”

Matter Levels Issues Security Concentration

Author:Vicente Fox

“The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!”

Book Influence Childhood France Concentration Surprising Arrivals Marie

Author:Antonia Fraser

“Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.”

I Can Actors Stars Concentration Movie Star Great Actors

Author:Norman Jewison

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