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Quotes about Concentration

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.
- Oswald Chambers
Consecration would soon be changed into sanctification if we would only concentrate on what God wants.
- Oswald Chambers
So often we impair God's designed influence, which He desires to exhibit through us, because of our own conscious efforts to be consistent and useful. Jesus said there is only one way to develop and grow spiritually, and that is through focusing and concentrating on God. In essence, Jesus was saying, "Do not worry about being of use to others; simply believe on Me." In other words, pay attention to the Source, and out of you "will flow rivers of living water
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer is an effort of the will. After we have entered our secret place and shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray. We cannot seem to get our minds into good working order, and the first thing we have to fight is wandering thoughts. The great battle in private prayer is overcoming this problem of our idle and wandering thinking. We have to learn to discipline our minds and concentrate on willful, deliberate prayer.
- Oswald Chambers
I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.
- Paulo Coelho
If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens...Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.
- Paulo Coelho
Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.
- Paulo Coelho
Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.
- Oswald Chambers
The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.
- Steven Pressfield
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.
- Victor Hugo
If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.
- Bill Gates
don't want everything that's going on to be a…distraction for you two. I don't want you to
- Lisa Wingate