No matter how loud the stadium is, once you’re on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it’s silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It’s amazing how much concentration you can have when it’s required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.
My mind wanders terribly. I’m not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn’t help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration – lots of it.
I tend to think some things are off-limits. Not in the sense that you should not be able to say them, but you need some care about how and when you go into them. If you wanted to make a joke about concentration camps you should think twice. At least twice.
I am very hard on myself. I know the slightest loss of concentration, the slightest mistake will be punished. I try to limit it as much as possible.
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that’s what one calls a detail.
Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.
Work has become like prison because of the way we treat it. If you are trapped with people who you do not care for, it feels like a concentration camp.
If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren’t ready when that fish hits, you can’t set the hook.
If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.
To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
It’s a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off gender as an independent locus of oppression, we dilute the strength of a women’s movement, or of women’s rights advocacy.
No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.
Concentration and focus – they are very important, just as important as in anything, I suppose, if you’re going to succeed. I’ve seen a lot of good players on the training ground, but when it comes to the game, they can’t keep the same levels up on a Saturday.
I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.
Not listening to what my wife tells me is my worst habit. I’m always losing my concentration.
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.
Mom’s dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.
In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
You work every day technically, physically but so much is in the mind. Look at when players go on big scoring runs, then stop scoring. It’s not that they are any different physically, it’s very often mental, confidence, concentration.
It’s all about mentally staying in the moment and not losing concentration and trying to back up every day.
And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.
It’s hard to improve our schools. It’s hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class wages. But it might be easier to lower middle-class costs by building more housing.
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
People assume I’m fearless. A lot of the things I deal with are pretty scary. Fear makes you pay attention – it’s about absolute concentration.
With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it’s more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.
When you are accustomed to winning, when you are used to winning, then afterwards you tend not to have the same level of concentration. Sometimes you go into the games thinking you have already won because you are so strong.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
It’s all about concentration when you’re tired.
Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.
Acting, really, is a lot of mental fatigue, emotional fatigue, concentration… it’s mentally draining.
I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.
My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I’ll totally divert and do something totally different.
It is all about concentration, and the more games you play, the more you concentrate.
When I am on stage I am locked away in energy and in concentration. I hear and I think about nothing but the music and I can only relax when it is over.
Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
Physical activity can improve immunity, concentration in the classroom and aerobic fitness.
To play at the highest level requires tremendous effort, concentration and above all, never giving up.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on the very top so concentration of wealth doesn’t get to extreme levels.
It’s war for 90 minutes in the Manchester Derby. You cannot give anything less than 100 percent concentration.
It’s better to do one thing at a time and give your full concentration.
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!
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.
A lot of goals are scored when defenders lose their concentration for a split second and a forward makes a run in behind or gets that one extra step that leads to a shot.
The concentration of plastic is rapidly increasing in the gyres. Even if you were to close off the tap, and no more plastic entered the ocean, that plastic would stay there, probably for hundreds of years.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
I box two to three times a week. I don’t like going to the gym because it’s boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I’m actually learning something that’s useful.
I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
We can’t have all the concentration of wealth in a few places in this country. We’ve got to create economic opportunity and new industries in communities that feel left behind.
By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
I didn’t equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That’s the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.
In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless – the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone.
I’m for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai’i now and putting them in concentration camps.
If you are a team that wants to win something, you have to play for 90 minutes with concentration and focus.
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.
