Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
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.
No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U. N.
Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious. . . and consequently the concentration of all desire
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.
Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness.
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.
In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.
I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.
There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.
I remember when I was in the prisoner camp, I was a French prisoner. And I saw the first photograph from the concentration camps, and we discussed it with other prisoners. And our feeling was we did not only lose the war, we lost also our honor.