#concentration

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. ↗

— Serena Williams

#down #gun #keep #playing #shooting

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#antoinette #arrival #book #books #childhood

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

— Carlos Fuentes

#demands #done #else #except #nothing

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#concentration #france #ten #were

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#busy #chains #child #component #concentration

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#focus #hand #i #learned #lesson

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#been #concentration #greatest #inside #los

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#concentration #entirely #form #game #i

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#business #commanding #concentration #exactly #focusing

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#comes #concentration #confidence #hunger #out