Quotes about Concentration

She's just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it's not, it's the worst, it's the worst feeling there is—incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-righteous and focused and hard as glass, like the view through a telescope. A feeling of total concentration, but total powerlessness. Which must be why it inspires so much murder: killing is the ultimate control.

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

My greatest asset now is my focus.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.