Jessica Alba Quotes

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

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.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

Everywhere else in the day, my brain is in a thousand different places, but when I'm working out, I can only focus on the pain.

When I am performing ice immersion, actually I do not think very much. It is all before.

When I play my match, everything else is completely not in my mind anymore.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.