Concentration Quotes

• We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Character
  • Remember
  • Education

• Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Earth

• I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps.

  

  Francis Biddle
  • Concentration
  • Putting
  • Catching

• There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Control
  • Danger
  • Networks

• An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Excellence
  • Marvel
  • Delicacy

• This is a good way to improve your concentration.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Improve
  • Concentration

• A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Attention
  • Concentration
  • Equanimity

• I mean, it's the same game, it just takes a little more concentration. I think I'm just kind of riding a little momentum right now. Hopefully I can ride it the rest of the year.

  

  Ian Kinsler
  • Rest
  • Ride
  • Hopefully

• The increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect. Our ability to predict that effect is very limited.

  

  Rex W. Tillerson
  • Atmosphere
  • Concentration

• Concentration may be my weak point.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Weak
  • Concentration

• I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Together
  • Prose

• New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. A lot of people seem to be similar to the kid in school, which is doing a lot of things with no direct consequence to their joy, or their lives.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Joy
  • Wealth
  • Human Happiness

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

  

  Christmas Humphreys
  • Meditation
  • Concentration
  • Contemplation

• There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.

  

  Benjamin Creme
  • Inspiration
  • Meditation
  • Contemplation

• A brow furrow is a very important indicator of confusion or concentration, and it can be a negative facial expression.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Important
  • Expression
  • Negative

• The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Success
  • Simple
  • Practice

• The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • House
  • Community
  • Politics

• The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it.

  

  Josh Kopelman
  • Concentration
  • Capital
  • Philadelphia

• Samādhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Concentration
  • Unification
  • Induce

• Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

  

  William Osler
  • Time
  • Exercise
  • Hours

• If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

  

  Phil Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Singing
  • Harmony
  • Concentration

• 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.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Moving
  • Break
  • Musician

• So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They all tell me I look like a first grader or a concentration camp survivor. What's this thing that guys have for girls with long hair? Fascists, the whole bunch of them! Why do guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself know at least two hundred and fifty unclassy girls with long hair. Really.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Girls
  • Survivor
  • Fascists

• For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps.

  

  Walter Schellenberg
  • Resistance
  • Instance
  • Himmler

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