Concentration Quotes

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confi...

Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration ...

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like openi...

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look ...

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to an...

A single idea if it is right saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endl...

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous a...

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-wor...

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinti...

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinc...

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wo...

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of a...

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune ...

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit t...

Religion demands above all the concentration of the spirit...it is a thrusting into the unity of all...

He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an obser...

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to informat...

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find ...

The secret of concentration is to shut down the other windows.

Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one...

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptio...

And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pl...

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

A full mind is an empty baseball bat.

In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this w...

Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of pe...

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as...

Give me a man who says this one thing I do and not these fifty things I dabble in.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting press...

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies...

...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put...

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ou...

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...