Concentration Quotes

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.

~ Ralph Alfred Habas

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Samuel Johnson

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 surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

~ Julio Cortázar

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 and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.

~ Muriel Spark

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.

~ Susan Sontag

A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sow the seeds of hard work and you will reap the fruits of success. Find something to do, do it with all your concentration. You will excel.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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 boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

~ C.s. Lewis

Speed doesn't matter, Concentration matters.

~ Rana Suhaib

You must learn focus and concentration for you to enjoy solitude.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Most of the people in the world are just distracted and work only on the surface but if you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor of you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you can take ten thousand hours and divide it by the number of hours, you can concentrate and devote to repeatedly doing one single thing in a day, you will be amazed how best you will become in that thing after a given number of years.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The world does not know how to concentrate on working.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor to you.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time. It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value. Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Begin to think of how you could maximize the time you have through hard work and through concentration.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value. The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

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

~ Sunday Adelaja

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Each of us has a latent energy and we need to discover this invisible treasure by the way of concentration

~ Sunday Adelaja

The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a leader, always look for people who buy into your vision.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You can’t lead people if you aren’t going to focus on what’s relevant to you and them. Don’t worry about who is and who is not watching you. Consider what you have to watch.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don’t force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—rather he picks about five words at random out of twenty and guesses at the meaning that probably belongs to these five words—just as little do we see a tree exactly and completely with reference to leaves, twigs, color, and form; it is so very much easier for us to simply improvise some approximation of a tree. Even in the midst of the strangest experiences we will still do the same: we make up the major part of the experience and can scarcely be forced not to contemplate some event as its inventors. All this means: basically and from time immemorial we are—accustomed to lying. Or to put it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short, more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist than one knows.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

To become a better you, concentrate on the work at hand at the moment. Do it and do it well.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Tim Wu

It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

~ C. Robert Cargill

Once the powers of the mind are concentrated and turned back upon itself, as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so would the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

~ Abhijit Naskar

When I am away, I am with it. When I am with it, I am away.

~ Aditya Ajmera

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Dylan Anders Porter

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

~ Bryant Mcgill

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

~ Alan W. Watts

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor