Concentration Quotes

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. (Hans Hofmann)
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. View quote
Max Beerbohm
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. View quote
Arthur Miller
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. View quote
Alva Myrdal
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death! View quote
Jack Kevorkian
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles. View quote
Charlton Heston
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. View quote
Charles E. Wilson
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move. (Conrad Hall)
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. View quote
Norman Jewison
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. View quote
Serena Williams
It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music. View quote
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Marx... Lenin... Mao Tse-Tung... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions. View quote
Dorothy Day
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man. View quote
Bruce Lee
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but is also likely to be the very last. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes long hours of studying and uninterruptible concentration. View quote
Donald Knuth
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity. View quote
Ramakrishna
In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. (Patañjali)
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart. View quote
Patañjali
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. View quote
Cyril Connolly
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk