Concentration Quotes - page 12

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer. (Dana Spiotta)
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry. View quote
Ernst Haas
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration. View quote
Eve Arnold
To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on. View quote
Florence Griffith Joyner
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics. View quote
Hank Azaria
The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N. View quote
Harold Wallace Rosenthal
When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. View quote
Helen Wills
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy. View quote
James Lasdun
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends. View quote
James Laughlin
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept. View quote
Jeffrey Kluger
My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B. (Jenson Button)
It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services. View quote
Jim McKelvey
The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. View quote
John Olver
The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization. View quote
John Olver
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same. View quote
John Prendergast
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power. View quote
Jonathan Turley
The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it. View quote
Josh Kopelman
The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. View quote
Julia Leigh
After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace used to do 'The Big Surprise.' I thought, Huh, maybe that door isn't sealed shut if I want to do '60 Minutes' one day. View quote
Julie Chen
Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process. View quote
Jamais Cascio
I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee. (Karen Thompson Walker)
The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States. View quote
Lea Salonga
Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration. View quote
Lee Westwood
I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps. View quote
Francis Biddle
New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts. View quote
George Murray