Top 321 Concentrating Quotes & Sayings

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

It doesn't matter who I'm facing. I'm concentrating on myself.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field.

If you're concentrating on climbing , you can't be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when you come back to deal with them, you have a better view of their reliative importance. Climbing puts things in perspective again.

When you're concentrating on just the music, you're not thinking about anything else.

I'm not good at concentrating.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally.

There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.

The only thing I'm concentrating on doing is becoming world heavyweight champion.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

I'm concentrating on my career, which is my top priority. The rest will follow eventually.

Concentrating on yourself all day is not healthy.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

If there's a stereotype that you're not supposed to be good at something, that still gets so badly in your way of concentrating.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of the piece.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

I am concentrating on my acting skills.

For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

The most important thing is to stay down to earth and keep concentrating on the next game.

I have to do my work as party leader and that's what I'm concentrating on.

I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.

Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

I'm concentrating on singing so much. I don't think of anything else.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

We must stop concentrating on our differences and look for what we have in common.

It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

As one can solve maths by concentrating do I focus on certain places in my body and generate heat because of it.

If the opportunity comes about that's right and it can be a smooth thing, yeah sure. But for the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

But there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

I'm just concentrating on my football. I'm not thinking about the length of my contract.

It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.

As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

It's about concentrating on the football for me.

I like the extras in life. Concentrating on serious things doesn't mean you can't also enjoy the lighter ones.

I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.

When you're concentrating hard, hours can fly by, and it's just you and a math problem.

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

I should be concentrating on writing pages.

I could never concentrate on Sunday church services because I'd be concentrating on women's hats.

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.