Quotes about Concentration

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

In the concentration camps...we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.

How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?

What we focus on shapes the soul—the mind, the will, the emotions.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn. Concentration

I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.