#concentration

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated. ↗

— Roger Sessions

#being #communicated #communication #concentration #demands

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#attention #concentration #connection #eagerness #inspiration

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form. ↗

— Thomas Boswell

#concentration #life #poetry #speech #experience

Auschwitz?! That is a name I had heard before. There is not much time for thinking. It had been raining here not so long ago. The asphalt of the wet, wide platform reflects the light of the high lighting-poles. The row of armed SS men competes in howling with their dogs they hold on leashes ↗

— Azriel Feuerstein

#azriel-feuerstein #holocaust #the-tumbler #men

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. ↗

— Chris Evert

#far #game #gotten #me #mental

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#circumstances #concentration #democracy #executive #executive power

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#globalisation #interests #most #movement #people

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#beneficial #character #concentration #doing #going

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. ↗

— Dan Flavin

#blessed #bring #cathedrals #celebrating #concentrations

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. ↗

— James Dean

#alone #being #concentration #imagination #thing