Quotes about Concentration

In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of "deep reading," which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates of perception, and a slower pace.

I never attend calls when I am shooting.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

What we don't keep in focus before us eventually fades.

Keep first things first; distraction is the enemy of direction.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on.

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

In the concentration camps...we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.