The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment — Dorian Yates
Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. — James Arthur Ray
Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength. — Sun Tzu
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. — Ray Knight
Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can't be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet. — Edwin Moses
Concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. — Bruce Henderson
Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center — Morihei Ueshiba
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. — Serena Williams
Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth. — Warren Buffett
Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration. — Andrew Carnegie
Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action. — Moshe Feldenkrais
Great results, can be achieved with small forces. — Sun Tzu
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. — Arnold Palmer
Short Concentric Quotes
Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism. — Albert Einstein
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. — Dorothy Day
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson
If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms. — Jurgen Klopp
This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy. — Byron Dorgan
Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half. — Paul Bryant
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. — Bill Russell
Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure. — Byron Nelson
Concentric Image Quotes
One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration. — Andrew Carnegie
Patience is not passive, on the contrary it is concentrated strength.
Coffee Quotes
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. — Rick Warren
I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. — David Lynch
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee. — Gerard Way
And you became like coffee,
in the deliciousness,
and the bitterness,
and the addiction. — Mahmoud Darwish
Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? — Albert Camus
A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more. — Jayne Mansfield
The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso. — Ernesto Illy
I never laugh until I've had my coffee. — Clark Gable
Customer Interaction Quotes
Every customer interaction is a marketing opportunity. If you go above and beyond on the customer service side, people are much more likely to recommend you. — Stewart Butterfield
Loyalty is earned with friendliness, responsiveness, ease of doing business, fair value, and the good feeling customers get when they call you, visit you, or interact with you. — Jeffrey Gitomer
Customers long to interact with - even relate to - employees who act like there is still a light on inside. — Chip R. Bell
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
I think of a traditional CEO as being divorced from customers. A lot of consumer company CEOs - they're not really interacting with consumers. — Tim Cook
WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko. — Mitchell Baker
Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers. — Bill Crawford
Learn to concentrate single-mindedly on the most important thing that you can be doing at any one time.
Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company. — Marc Benioff
The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers. — Kelly Sue DeConnick
We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow. — Mary Catherine Bateson
Businesses are interacting with consumers to socialize rather than learn about customer expectations to in turn, deliver tangible value, improve product experiences, and invest in long-term relationships. — Brian Solis
Concentrated Life Quotes
Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last. — Emmet Fox
I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding — Dorothy Height
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. — Jack Nicklaus
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul — Harold S. Kushner
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. — Tony Robbins
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life. — Charles Spurgeon
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. — Paul J. Meyer
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying. — Bobby Jones
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Buddha
He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Focus Concentrate Quotes
Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up. — Joyce Meyer
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. — Tony Robbins
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. — Alexander Graham Bell
Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things and harder to be distracted by the wrong things. — Tim Grover
Concentrate your resources on a small number of high-conviction bets; this is easy to say but evidently hard to do. You can delete more stuff than you think. — Sam Altman
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. — Tony Robbins
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind. — Anil Ambani
As one can solve maths by concentrating do I focus on certain places in my body and generate heat because of it. — Wim Hof
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. — Andrew Carnegie
Mind Concentration Quotes
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. — Nikola Tesla
A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music. — Sergei Rachmaninoff
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond A. Spruance
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else? — John D. Rockefeller
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine. — Swami Vivekananda
Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life. — Brian Tracy
Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles.... So my problem is this: Can I bring the Lord back in my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind? — Frank Laubach
It’s always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames. — Stephen Hendry
Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere — Bruce Lee
Work Concentration Quotes
In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
We now see that young students have more and more trouble concentrating or working long hours. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. — Roger Bannister
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law. — Dale Spender
When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two. — Jim Rohn
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends. — Stephen Spender
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. — Isadora Duncan
On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work. — Jim Rohn
Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning. — Ricardo Semler
Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. — Oswald Chambers
Focus And Concentration Quotes
We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world. — Bonnie L. Oscarson
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. — Paulo Coelho
If you don't concentrate on counting the money, people soon realize that money is not the focus of your consciousness, so they give you everything other than money: kudos, acclaim, praise, etc., etc. And sooner or later you'll be in trouble. — Stuart Wilde
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. — Peter Drucker
Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. — Alan Loy McGinnis
If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how to test reality, regulate her impulses, stabilize her moods, integrate her feelings and actions, focus her concentration and plan. — Stanley Greenspan
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. — Tony Robbins
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets. — Nido R Qubein
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world — Og Mandino
I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration. — Usain Bolt
Concentrate On Work Quotes
I have lots of desires - good body, nice skin, cute, beautiful, knows how to cook, concentrates on her work, a girl that's worth the respect. — Seungri
If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders. — Robert Townsend
I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. — Henry Rollins
Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now. — John Zorn
I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites. — Fergie
Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done. That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defenceless, for as long as most of humanity feels the pain of poverty we all remain prisoners. — Nelson Mandela
A horse that has made a positive change in his behavior needs an opportunity to 'soak', to concentrate on & digest what he has learned. He needs his quiet time. Given this opportunity, his response will be better the next time you work with him. — Buck Brannaman
It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something. So it's nice to just concentrate on it one hundred percent and give your all to it. — Michael Kiwanuka
I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration span, it seemed to suit my personal style of performance, and I have fallen in love with film acting. — Ron Perlman
I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music. — Steve Reich
Can't Concentrate Quotes
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. — Louis D. Brandeis
Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives. — Ralph Levy
My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat. — Tracey Gold
When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top. — Royal Robbins
Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are. — Chip Kidd
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now. — Paulo Coelho
My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity. — Joe Torre
This is the great luxury of not working: the moment you read a book that has nothing to do with work, you know you're really relaxed. And I have a sh*t attention span. I can't concentrate for more than five minutes. — Eddie Redmayne
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up. — John Henrik Clarke
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity. — Dieter Rams
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. — Erwin Rommel
Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you. — Anton Szandor LaVey
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it. — Aldous Huxley
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level. — Lev S. Vygotsky
The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does. — Shane MacGowan
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power. — Aldous Huxley
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. — Harold Geneen
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color. — Fred Korematsu
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. — Oprah Winfrey
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. — Erich Fromm
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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
Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep. — Peter Zumthor
Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing. — Sanford Meisner
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way. — Marquis De Sade
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. — Jean-Marie Le Pen
The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. — Dave Eggers
Earth as a dynamical system is a really bad computer. A lot of information processing is concentrated in a few tiny compute nodes brains, chips with terrible interconnects, even as bad as use of physical translation and air pressure waves. And powered primitively by combustion. — Andrej Karpathy
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