Mental Concentration Quotes

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.

You have to concentrate on the swing.

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.

When the bull's-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.

I'd like to levitate.

When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.