Losing Concentration Quotes & Sayings

How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood. — Nick Offerman

Banal, prepackaged sentiments neatly wrapped with a bow on top, like she got them at the resentful-wife store. And when she used them, you could tell how much she was tapping into their universal power. She was destroyed and destructive and had to say something. — Yelena Akhtiorskaya

If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots. — Julie Heldman

Notes are expensive ... spend them wisely — B.B. King

I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body. — Tamsin Greig

Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid. — Terry Pratchett

In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you. — Hannah Hurnard

Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered. — Thomas Pynchon

The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can "drive" on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participation requires total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over. — Joan Didion

It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and frustration of sport should come from the performance itself, not the score. While he is playing, the worst thing a player can think about in terms of concentration - and therefore of success - is losing. The next worst is winning. — John Wooden

Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are becoming more restless, more impatient, more demanding, and more insatiable, even as we become more connected and creative. We are rapidly losing the ability to think long about any- thing, even those issues we care about. We flit, moving restlessly from one link to another. — Margaret J. Wheatley

If you want to excel at your work, work on your imagination. — Sujata Parashar

While the Arab guerrillas were moving in, the Arab civilian population was moving out. - I.F. Stone reporting from Israel during 1948 War of Independence — Sol Stern

If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in. — D. Anne Love

There's no question you get caught up in the drama but I always concentrate on whose winning and whose losing that's for sure. That's one thing you can't do in boxing is lose your concentration, watch your mind wander. — Harold Lederman

People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of losing themselves in the act of concentration on the non-self. — Erich Fromm

Balancing so many things at once means that too often we only skim across the surface of an issue. As our concentration span shrinks, we risk losing the capacity to think about things carefully, to consider their complexity, to examine their long-term implications. We can become drawn to the elevator pitch, to the simple explanation, to the quick fix. At the same time, we become less capable of genuinely listening to one another, as — Donniel Hartman

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. — Bohdi Sanders

There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been. — John Burnham Schwartz

Nobody's granted a final day, just an accidental interruption in his life. — Kamel Daoud

When they first kiss, there on the beach, they will kneel at the edge of the Pacific and say a prayer of thanks, sending all the stories of love inside them out in a fleet of bottles all across the oceans of the world. — Francesca Lia Block

Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul — Steve Aylett

Ignoring intuition to follow some course in life always has the potential for regrets. — Steven Redhead