“And it didn't matter how stupid he had to get... or if I was sittin' there concentrating as hard as I could... on the computer to write a letter to a senator or congressman or something else, he'd come and rub them balls in my face.”— Joe Exotic , imdb.com
“When I’m really interested in something, I get super-focused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it. And that is very common for people on the autism spectrum. And yeah, and it just—I think that was one of the re…”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.org
“Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die. If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed. Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced, not just talked about.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, twitter.com
“Starla: My God, you are attractive! Dean: Thanks. But no time for that now. You need to tell me about this urban legend. Please? Lives are at stake. Starla: [staring at Dean] I'm sorry, I just... I can't even concentrate. It's like staring... into the sun.”— John Shiban, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com
“You can put your mind in order by focusing on one thing at a time, doing it well, and appreciating the opportunity that this doing offers.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“It was at this time that I sought for (and sometimes achieved) an intense concentration, a complete absorption in the worlds of mineralogy and chemistry and physics, in science--focusing on them, holding myself together in the chaos.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”— Tim Berners-Lee, w3.org
“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”— Chuck Yeager, todayinsci.com
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”— Julio Cortazar, amazon.com
“To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.”— Marina Abramovic, beta.theglobeandmail.com
“For the mind to become settled in the present moment, in the midst of so much change, we must develop concentration.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“It was becoming a habit--this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com