#concentration

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

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

— Helen Wills Moody

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New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts. ↗

— George Murray

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Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has. ↗

— Norman Jewison

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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody. ↗

— William Weld

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If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. "Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

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If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious. ↗

— Muriel Spark

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I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration. ↗

— Jean Alesi

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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

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