It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points – Richmond and Atlanta – the enemy’s main strength is concentrated.
I think all my albums have concentrated on songs, I’ve never taken the typical Van Halen route to try and become a guitar hero.
Sometimes you have faced no shots during 90 minutes, and in minute 91, there is a shot. You always need to be focused, concentrated, and this is what makes you tired, being so focused.
Things are never easy against whoever you play, which is why every game you have to be totally at it, on your mettle, and totally focused and concentrated.
When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.
There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to be totally concentrated on the literary aesthetic and to consider politics to be something dirty that shouldn’t be mixed with an artistic or a literary vocation.
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.
The ability to scale up is hard. So the best model for us is concentrated India, diversified financial services, and through this, we can get significant scale on an Indian platform.
I’m not playing for Wolves just so I can get in squads. I’m concentrated on playing for Wolves.
‘The Judas Kiss’ was really wonderful. I loved that it concentrated on just two events in Wilde’s life, and Rupert Everett was top dollar.
No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.
I’ve been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today – you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.
Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
Work is important, but you also need to disconnect, to unplug at times, in order to be even more concentrated when you do work.
It’s impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There’s really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It’s not healthy.
When the Beatles came in, I really concentrated on making a lot of movies. Those beach films that we did were a lot fun. They hit with an audience that related to what we were trying to do on the screen. That kept me going all through that Beatle period.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.
The only books I give up on are texts where the writer’s attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her use of language becomes careless.
I was only 30 years old, and the second Mr. Olympia was probably the most outright win in the history of the sport. It literally took the judges two minutes to see the winner, and then they concentrated on who is coming second.
I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don’t think I would play.
Even when I’m alone, my life revolves around film. I think that’s why I live in New York, not L.A., where it’s so concentrated.
New Zealand’s food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country’s prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments’ minds.
I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.
America’s got amazing presentation, especially New York – the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
I think my biggest strength is that I always keep doing exactly the same thing. There are forwards who go crazy with euphoria, but after a goal, I let myself fall back to the midfield, recharge. Keeping yourself cool and concentrated on your mission.
