Only Communists and Social Democrats who acted against the state were incarcerated. Most of the Communists and Social Democrats I had known became Nazis later. Only those who were doing anything against the state were thrown in concentration camps.
I don't have time to think about the false controversy.
This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.
Difficulties with material things often come to remind us that our concentration should be on spiritual things instead of material things. Sometimes difficulties of the body come to show that the body is just a transient garment, and that the reality is the indestructible essence which activates the body. But when we can say, 'Thank God for problems which are sent for our spiritual growth. ' They are no longer problems. They then become opportunities.
My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.
Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.
What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest. . . The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.
When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.
One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist. . . What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
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.
No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it's off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with. One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms. However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend themselves.
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness. . . The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration. . . a focusing of the attention in a special way.
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.
Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.