Quotes about Concentration

If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.

Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.

Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

don't want everything that's going on to be a…distraction for you two. I don't want you to

In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of "deep reading," which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates of perception, and a slower pace.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

What we don't keep in focus before us eventually fades.

Keep first things first; distraction is the enemy of direction.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on.