#concentration

I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#because #bell #camera #concentration #first

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill. ↗

— Ron Silver

#energy #good #i #lot #realized

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#above #camps #concentration #day #every

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#achievements #concentration #electronics #information #reality

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#concentrate #concentration #consecration #god #holy

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

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

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

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps. ↗

— Francis Biddle

#america #camps #catching #concentration #every

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#concentration #everything #language #our #poetry