Concentration Quotes
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
Shunryu Suzuki
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Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn`t look up. Well, maybe once.
Isaac Asimov
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[on Spencer Tracy] What an actor should be is exemplified, for me, by him. I like the reality of his acting. It`s so honest and seems so effortless, even though what Tracy does is the result of damn hard work and extreme concentration. Actually, the ultim...
Richard Widmark
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Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
Chuck Norris
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[on George C. Scott] It was amazing just to stand by him and see him at work on "Taps" -- a real experience to see such discipline and concentration.
Timothy Hutton
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To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that`s a thing people don`t understand. It is that exhausting. If you`re doing it well, if you`re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your c...
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that`s all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there`s a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I`ll remem...
Natascha McElhone
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor`s duty; to interpret it his problem and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that`s all you hav...
James Dean
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An actor is a puppet, manipulated by a dozen other people. Auto racing has dignity. But you need the same absolute concentration. You have to reach inside yourself and bring forth a lot of broken glass.
Steve McQueen
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[on Cary Grant] I learned many things working with Cary Grant. He has such tremendous concentration. Many actors do not have the courage to stand still. Cary Grant knows how to concentrate, how to look directly at you, but always with great relaxation.
Sophia Loren
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I simply love the camera and it loves me. But the amount of concentration you have to use to feed the camera is so enormous that you`re absolutely ragged at the end of a day after doing something simple - like a look.
Dirk Bogarde
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But being a film actor is very different from, say, a theater actor. You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. So I am very involved with the character, but I have to leave it...
Catherine Deneuve
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[on Montgomery Clift] He had so much power, so much concentration. Clift was a complicated man, there`s no question about it. He was a very sweet man, Monty, very emotional.
Burt Lancaster
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[on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Washington, D.C., May 17, 2007] My relationship with this good man is where I`ve been focused, and that`s where my concentration is. And I don`t regret any other aspect of it. And so I--we filled a lot of space toget...
George W. Bush
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I liked the movement, technique and philosophy and I was training to be the best. Karate`s a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further. You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentra...
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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It`s concentration and luck. There are many prominent people in this business who choose certain types of pictures and play a derivation of a certain character they always play so they are immediately identifiable -- and they are commercially successful b...
Tom Skerritt
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[on fellow "flapper" actress Clara Bow] I liked Clara. A very warm, sweet, generous girl. What great potential! But she wasn`t a finisher. Her mind was like a sponge, but she didn`t have the concentration or ability to see it through. She was quite ingenu...
Colleen Moore
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I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you`re not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy-soldiers concentration!
Roddy McDowall
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You just have to be serious for a few minutes when it`s your turn, and then you can hang out. But when it is your turn, bowling takes a lot of concentration because it`s all on yourself.
Tim Wheeler
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You have to create your own luck. At 2-0 the match is over. With a Beckham penalty it is 90 percent luck for a goalkeeper and 10 percent concentration.
Fabien Barthez
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You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
Catherine Deneuve
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Within forty eight hours the concentration of both armies will take place on a field within view and a great battle will be fought.
John Buford
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When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.
Mercedes McCambridge
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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
Barney Frank
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We’ve included features that weren’t in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the Rio Grande levees. Now we’re focusing on the floodway levees too.
Carlos Marin
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We put a new engine in for the final two qualifying sessions. The other engine got us through the Ringers Gloves Battle but was going away as we headed into the semifinal and final rounds. With the Battle behind us our concentration is now on the Mac Tool...
Angell Watts
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Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
Martha Gellhorn
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This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.
Byron Dorgan
Source: brainyquote.com
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They take away their feeding and water when they`re in coma and let them die. I mean, you`re validating what the Nazis did in concentration camps.
Jack Kevorkian
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There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.
Martha Gellhorn
Source: brainyquote.com
