Concentrating Quotes

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet. 
Joan Jett 

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. 
Tennessee Williams 

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. 
Nido Qubein 

I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing. 
Wayne Rooney 

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. 
Manuel Puig 

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. 
Robert Caro 

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently. 
Robert Mapplethorpe 

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm. 
John McCarthy 

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now. 
Tia Carrere 

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. 
Donna Tartt 

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation. 
Paul Nurse 

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. 
Neil Gaiman 

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing. 
Ornette Coleman 

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. 
David Korten 

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. 
Richard Armour 

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably. 
Joan Cusack 

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. 
Harold S. Geneen 

For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff. 
Cheryl James 

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort. 
Jack Kilby 

My contract is just for this year, but I have an option for next year. It is not signed at this moment, but I am only concentrating on this year. I don't know exactly what I will do in the future. 
Jean Alesi


In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis. 
Katie Holmes 

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. 
Curtis Sittenfeld 

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. 
Alan Dean Foster 

I just try to concentrate on concentrating. 
Martina Navratilova 

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool. 
Eric Shanteau 

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this. 
John Mica 

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries. 
Troy Vincent 

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. 
John M. Ford 

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. 
Arthur Hays Sulzberger 

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff. 
Monica Keena 

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy. 
Arthur Capper 

You prepare yourself by concentrating on what you have to do out on the field. 
Brian McBride 

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed. 
Betty Cuthbert 

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs. 
Oliver Kahn 

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film. 
Timothy Bottoms 

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying. 
Bobby Jones 

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now. 
Big Pun 

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage. 
Ian Mcewan 

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. 
John Scott 

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. 
Bruno Walter