Top 370 Concentrate Quotes

The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you’re writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind.

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

If you don’t concentrate during a national team match you can just as easily get injured, so I want to make sure I can focus.

I don’t take pressure or keep expectations because then it becomes difficult to concentrate.

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

You have to concentrate on yourself, to look at your own interests. You need fighting spirit. My parents, sisters and trainers helped, but I have fighting spirit.

In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn’t easy either, and for someone who’s quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.

When I am at home, I am there and when I’m shooting or doing any other thing, I concentrate on that.

In general, when I’m writing, I concentrate on the story itself, and I leave it to other people, such as agents and publishers, to work out who it’s for.

We went to Ibiza, and I was on Ritalin, and, for a kid who couldn’t concentrate, I read a 200-page book on King Arthur, and my mum just hated it. She said it just wasn’t me.

If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there’s a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

Everyone’s careers go at different paces; you need to forget what other people are doing and concentrate on your own progress.

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

I don’t believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.

I didn’t care what people thought of me, that I was getting better, pushing myself to get better. Those are the things I concentrate on. I don’t concentrate on what everyone else was saying.

Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

As much as I’d only like to concentrate on the creative side of acting, the whole business in general is just that – a business – and you have to do your homework if you want to be successful.

I’m noise-sensitive. It’s always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he’s my favourite writer.

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

As a player, I just focus on the games and concentrate on improving myself.

I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe’s democratization.

People concentrate on ‘oh you can’t do that,’ or ‘you’re a bit too big for that’ or whatever, rather than just concentrating on what you’re good at. It’s about being comfortable with the skin you’re in, being comfortable within your own mind.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

That’s what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that’s great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.

I think we will be able to work with Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to reduce tension and concentrate efforts in both the countries on real problems of the people – poverty, social injustice, and development.

I need to stay focused and concentrate on the little things I need to do to improve my game.

You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, ‘Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I’m going to hear all the things I don’t want to hear.’

I want to concentrate on work and won’t do anything to divert my concentration.

There is no longer any pressure to play the heroine. So I can have fun and be the actor I want to be. I can look beyond the hairstyles and the clothes and concentrate on the acting.

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you’re starving yourself, you can’t concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn’t eat.

To concentrate intensely for 4 and a half hours, that’s too hard for me. Too tiring. I concentrate ‘lo maximo’ on the ‘golpe,’ the stroke, but between strokes I’m interacting with the crowd or laughing with my caddie, talking about the spectators, the cute girls.

Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core.

I have to concentrate on my job and try to do my best in the things that I know. Coaching the team and trying to have a winning mentality.

You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

I’m like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

It’s always better to work with a good filmmaker. It makes a lot of difference with the presentation of the film, which matters a lot at the end of the day. But I don’t really concentrate on only big names.

Much as I loved doing ‘The Big Breakfast,’ it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.

You can’t meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you’ll start walking pretty weird.

I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can’t do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day – and I’m not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class or cook. I’m not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.

I can’t really affect anything else other than when I’m on the pitch, so I try and concentrate on that.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

If you are feeling light, and you are not feeling tired in your body, you can obviously concentrate more.

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.

I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he’s the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it’s a little harder for me to hook up with him.

I was out on loan at Barnsley when United accepted an offer for me from Leicester and that was it really. I just had to concentrate on my new club.

I think, at some level, if we concentrate on problems as opposed to solutions, then you just create more problems.

It’s never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.