Concentration Quotes

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.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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 machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should.

~ Alain De Botton

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.

~ William Shakespeare

The price of winning is dedication and the price of dedication is concentration. To get any of the two you have to accept to toil for both.

~ Auliq Ice

Concentrate on the here and now. The future can take care of itself.

~ Christopher G. Nuttall

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

~ Moffat Machingura

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.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ William Styron

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.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Just as there’s usually a space or interval between people passing on the street, even if it sometimes seems very small, a space also exists between thoughts. In your meditation, see if you can perceive this gap between thoughts. What is it, and does it belong to the realm of time? If it does not, then it’s unborn and undying, beyond all conditioning, which is a psychological carry-over from the past to the present.Whatever thoughts or internal conflicts come up—do nothing. Do not try to force them to cease or change. And don’t “do nothing” to still the mind, quiet fears, or resolve conflicts—all of this is doing something. It only leads to more struggling and prevents you from seeing the actual nature of thought and internal conflict. Genuine attention has no motive.This observation or listening doesn’t involve effort. Effort merely distracts you from what’s taking place in the instant. A kind of concentration exists that’s not forced. We’ve all experienced listening or paying attention to something we truly enjoyed. At that moment, was effort required for concentration to take place?

~ H.e. Davey

Meditation is a state, often defined as deep dreamless sleep awake. But, in the same way that you cannot sleep on demand, you cannot meditate on demand—that is, you can’t reach the state instantly in the same way that you can raise your right hand. The practices preceding meditation are relaxation, stillness and mental focus. Those are all things you can do. They are the preparation. Then, if you the circumstances are right, you can transition from the waking to the meditative state.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Repose is not a discipline or practice. To experience Repose, you do not need to adhere to any specific philosophy or become proficient in any technique. There is no learning curve and no wrong way to be in Repose.

~ Victor Shamas

Meditation is not an act that has to be done separately or to be achieved in isolation of the forests. It is a quality, which continuously gets enhanced with the habit of doing even the smallest of the tasks with full concentration.

~ Deep Trivedi

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Concentration is… a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is alert and aware.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Whether one is remaining alert (mindfulness), focusing on a single thought or phrase (mantra), or mentally exploring ones inner world (visualization), all are one form of concentration or another.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

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

~ Christmas Humphreys

The degree of concentration you give to your dream will determine your success percentage!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I have discovered that you will achieve nothing if you pursue everything. Be specific and stay focused.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Waste no time on what you don’t want. Go for what you want. Go for that alone.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

DEPORT yourself from the coast of negative attitudes and you will give your dreams a lift up from a level of high concentration of repeated failure to an indelible success! God is with you!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The secret for mastery is concentration, the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Whatever is difficult can be done with regular attention and actions. Stay focused.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You must stay focused, concentrating on the work at hand. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is FOCUS...

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The conscious mind is intended as a focusing tool, not a storing place.

~ Matthew Perman

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

~ Paul Theroux

When the zone calls, you must listen. You never know how long being in the zone lasts.It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.

~ Johna Passaro

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.

~ Peter Redgrove

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

~ Arnold Palmer

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

~ Haruki Murakami

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.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

My memories of my time in high altitude astronomy indicate that there were no oxygen concentration monitors or alarms in the areas that liquid nitrogen was in use at the high altitude astronomical facilities where I had worked.

~ Steven Magee

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

~ Auliq Ice