Jerry Spinelli Quotes

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.

There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.

When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

I've been so in the zone, you don't know where you are or where you're at.

When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.

You have to be focused all the time.

One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.