Al Pacino
Actor, Filmmaker
"There is no happiness. There is only concentration."
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Concentration
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Byron Dorgan
Politician
"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy."
Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there."
Adrienne Rich
Poet, Essayist, Feminist
"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."
Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*"
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"The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster."
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"The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration."
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"In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die."
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"Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education."
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"If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration."
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"It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected."
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"Music for me, it demands full concentration."
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"To be concentrated means to live fully in the present."
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"Concentration is the secret of srength."
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"Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye."
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"Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life."
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"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."
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"What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre."
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"Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them."
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"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."
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"Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying."
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