#concentration

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

— Tim Wu

#humor #money #money

When you fully focus your mind, you make others attracted to you. ↗

— Toba Beta

#focus #laws-of-attraction #law-of-attraction

I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible, could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#dream #prison #dreams

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#doing #forming #good #good plan #keep

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#audience #characters #concentration #empathize #every

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#art #astronomical #combination #complicated #concentration

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

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#behind #common #common good #concentration #decisions

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#demands #done #else #except #nothing