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Letter "C" » concentration
«Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.»
«One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.»
Author: John Gielgud
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Big Thing, combine, concentration, earning, efficiency, good nature, go down, unawareness
«No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt»
Author: Max Beerbohm
(Wit, Writer)
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Doubt,
Work
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concentration, self-sacrifice, toil
«Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.»
«In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.»
«Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
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concentration, interferes, look up, orgies, orgy, put on
«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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abstraction, aggravation, aggravations, alternative, artifice, artifices, bustle, bustles, bustling, cities, concentration, congestion, deliberate, ecstasy, entertainment, holidays, intensification, levels, level best, look to, monotony, nearer, overcoming, plunge, pollution, Popular entertainment, pressure, sense an, stress, to the point
«For he who has no tranquility there is no concentration.»
«It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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concentration, concentration of power, consolidation, distribution, effected
«I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.»
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