“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
PinConcentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham BellPinDon’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. – Denis WaitleyPinIt is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. – Og MandinoPinIf you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. – Jack DixonPinConcentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration. – Andrew CarnegiePinWe can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right. – Marianne WilliamsonPinWhat does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win. – Patty BergPinIt is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses. – William Arthur WardPinThe degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. – Ramana Maharshi
17 Motivational Quotes About Concentration That Will Improve Your Focus
“It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”
Tony Robbins
PinYou can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark TwainPinConcentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. – Ray Knight
“To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it’s trivial or not time-bound, you won’t engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.”
PinOnly when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. – Barbara De AngelisPinIf your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren’t ready when that fish hits, you can’t set the hook. – Lee Trevino
“If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”
PinAll that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. – Gautama BuddhaPinFocus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. – Tony RobbinsPinThe lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus. – Damian LewisPinMany 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 CascioPinObstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. – Brian TracyPinThe only prudence in life is concentration. – Ralph Waldo EmersonPinThe ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. – Lee IacoccaPinConcentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. – Arnold PalmerPinThere can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength. – Pat RileyPinThe power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. – Haruki Murakami
17 Quotes About Concentration That Inspires Success
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”
Swami Vivekananda
PinThe key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. – Brian TracyPinThe indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. – Ben Stein
“Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.”
J. Herman Randall
PinSuccess in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration. – Willie SuttonPinConcentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. – Bill Russell
“I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.”
PinThe more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. – Earl NightingalePinThe five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. – Harold S. GeneenPinNo fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. – Max BeerbohmPinEach man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. – PlatoPinSingleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. – John D. RockefellerPinTo be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. – Bertrand RussellPinObstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry FordPinFocus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. – Mark TwainPinWhen every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. – Norman Vincent PealePinSuccess is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. – Wilferd Peterson
4 Quotes About Concentration in Politics and Governance
“With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates
PinConcentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. – Noam ChomskyPinConcentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. – Ralph Waldo EmersonPinIt is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. – Jimmy Carter
3 Quotes About Concentration For Students
PinTeens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. – Marilyn vos SavantPinPhysical activity can improve immunity, concentration in the classroom and aerobic fitness. – Robbie SavagePinOut of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning. – Stephen Hough
2 Quotes About Concentration in Music
PinWhen I am on stage I am locked away in energy and in concentration. I hear and I think about nothing but the music and I can only relax when it is over. – Joe HisaishiPinIf you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you. – Levon Helm
11 Quotes About Concentration in Sports
“Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.”
Izabel Goulart
PinNinety percent of my game is mental. It’s my concentration that has gotten me this far. – Chris EvertPinYou can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time. – Muhammad Ali
“I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it’s really mental.”
Adriana Lima
PinIf you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration. – Serena WilliamsPinIf you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That’s the way to go in sports. – Eliud KipchogePinConcentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can’t be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet. – Edwin MosesPinI always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is. – Wladimir KlitschkoPinIn football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it. – Michael SchumacherPinMental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching. – Ferguson JenkinsPinI don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest. – Venus Williams
2 Quotes About Concentration in Poetry
“Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself – less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive – less prose, more poetry.”
Ernst Haas
PinPoetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. – Adrienne Rich
4 Quotes About Concentration That Influence Happiness
“The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
PinTo be concentrated means to live fully in the present. – Erich FrommPinAll good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand. – Stephen McKennaPinWhat you choose to focus your mind on is critical, because you will become what you think about most of the time. – Noel Peebles
2 Quotes About Concentration For Artists
“Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence – a re-concentration… tearing away the veils that fact acquires through time.”
Francis Bacon
PinWho knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is diffracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated in a single beam? – Eric Maisel
12 Thought-Provoking Quotes About Concentration
“Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it’s a power nap. On the strong ends, it’s a giant battery, and that battery doesn’t run out.”
Ben Foster
PinBeing an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have. – James Dean
“I don’t read articles about myself. I try to distance myself from it. Reading about yourself is nice, but in the long run, it doesn’t help. Concentration has to be in the right place.”
Robert Lewandowski
“Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.”
PinConcentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. – Jack NicklausPinConcentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. – James Arthur Ray
“Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It’s about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth – intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It’s actually a beautiful feeling.”
Peter Zumthor
PinIf you don’t concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. – Alfred, Lord TennysonPinThe only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. – Lucian FreudPinNo plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time – but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. – Charles E. WilsonPinWhen you can focus your mind and attention and disregard distractions and irrelevant thoughts, you gain the ability to focus on every action and do it better. – Remez SassonPinThe jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. – Napoleon Hill
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