A Quote by Bertrand Russell

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell
British - Celebrity
May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

Gerhard Richter

Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.

David W. Orr

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But that's how writing poetry has felt to me my whole life. Everything seems to have just gotten immensely more mortal and tragic and scary, which makes it hard to concentrate, but also, if harnessed, can provide immense energy for making poems.

Matthew Zapruder

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

Denise McCluggage

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.

Carl Jung

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

I think my biggest achievement is that, after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane.

Jackie Kennedy

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

Mark Twain

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

Sun Tzu

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

Edward Abbey

I have a basic indolence about me which is essential to writing. ... It's thinking time, it's hanging-out time, it's daydreaming time. You know, it's lie-around-the-bed time, it's sitting-like-a-dope-in-your-chair time. And that seems to me essential to any work.

Grace Paley

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Soren Kierkegaard

It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.

Eric Betzig

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas M. Butler

Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.