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Concentration Quotes


These are some of the best 'Concentration' quotations and sayings.


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A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

A full mind is an empty bat.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. But the first broadside puts all to rights.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.


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