Quotes about Concentration

Contemplating a beautiful sunrise, you're not distracted by thinking about the past or the future. The more concentrated you become, the more you see the beauty all around you. So concentration is a source of happiness.

Meditation consists of generating three kinds of energy: mindfulness, concentration, and insight. These three energies give us power to nourish happiness and take care of our suffering. Suffering may be there. But with the energy of mindfulness, concentration, and insight, we can embrace and take care of that suffering and nourish happiness at the same time.

What consumes your mind controls your life.

Too much concentration belittles life. Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind - but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life.

Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Confine yourself to the present.

Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

The main thing Is to keep the main thing the main thing.

When Gates first met Warren Buffett at a dinner, the host asked all those at the table what they saw as the single most important factor in their journey through life. As Alice Schroeder related in her book The Snowball, both Gates and Buffett gave the same one-word answer: "Focus" (Habit 3: Put First Things First