What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. . . . I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.
A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.
Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!
Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.
It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls. . . three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.
Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.
By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
The child who concentrates is immensely happy
Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.
As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point that sets fire to the spirit of man. . . . Through the glass of His Incarnation He concentrates the rays of His Divine Truth and Love upon us so that we feel the burn, and all mystical experience is communicated to men through the Man Christ.
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.
If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it. . . he will possess strong, moving power.
The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.
When anything important has to be written. . . I think your hand concentrates for you.
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.
