#once

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fun #helps #i #me #need

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#bored #doing #fast #get #i

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#concentrate #happy #you

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#being busy #busy #consciousness #everyday #happiness

It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#barefoot #birth #child #easy #gave

I don't actually go to that many concerts. ↗

— Andy Murray

#concerts #go #i #many

I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do. ↗

— George Murray

#just #novel #occasional #once #poked

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

— George Murray

#concentration #disintegrating #new #new york #thoughts

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#clearly #conceived #doubtless #great #grows

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#anxiety #concentration #fine