#concentrate

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

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When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right. ↗

— Steve Marriott

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A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. ↗

— Robert Menzies

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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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What is art? Nature concentrated. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

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I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. ↗

— Maggie Kuhn

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I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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