#concentration

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#experience #vision #experience

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash. ↗

— Tim Wu

#humor #money #money

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#camps #come #concentration #go #latino

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#character #concentration #demands #energy #get

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain. ↗

— Celine Dion

#balance #brain #concentration #golf #hand

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. ↗

— Rob Walton

#army #camps #companies #concentration #dupont

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#becoming #came #concentration #doctor #getting

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#death #focus #hanging #irony #death

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#american people #aware #concentration #fewer #great

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order. ↗

— Albert Speer

#concentration #doubt #keep #means #menace