concentration

The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

You can set your mind to anything, just keep concentrating.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to who was capable of understanding the complexity (simplicity) of the problem or the approaches to a tentative solution. There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or "terror in a lonely place," the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind. As a mathematician he was free from subjection to reality, free to impose his ideas and designs on his own test environment. The only valid standard for his work, its critical point (zero or infinity), was the beauty it possessed, the deft strength of his mathematical reasoning. THe work's ultimate value was simply what it revealed about the nature of his intellect. What was at stake, in effect, was his own principle of intelligence or individual consciousness; his identity, in short. This was the infalling trap, the source of art's private involvement with obsession and despair, neither more nor less than the artist's self-containment, a mental state that led to storms of overwork and extended stretches of depression, that brought on indifference to life and at times the need to regurgitate it, to seek the level of expelled matter. Of course, the sense at the end of a serious effort, if the end is reached successfully, is one of lyrical exhilaration. There is air to breathe and a place to stand. The work gradually reveals its attachment to the charged particles of other minds, men now historical, the rediscovered dead; to the main structure of mathematical thought; perhaps even to reality itself, the so-called sum of things. It is possible to stand in time's pinewood dust and admire one's own veronicas and pavanes.

The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.

When I am away, I am with it. When I am with it, I am away.

Once the powers of the mind are concentrated and turned back upon itself, as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so would the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

By concentration is meant to know that all dharmas (elements of existence), from the very beginning have no nature of their own. They neither come into nor go out of existence. Because they are caused by illusion and imagination, they exist without real existence. They are only the one mind, whose substance admits no differentiation. Those who hold this view can stop the flow of erroneous thought. This is called concentration. (pg. 398, from "A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy," translated and compiled by Wing Tsit-Chan)

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

To become a better you, concentrate on the work at hand at the moment. Do it and do it well.

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page__ather he picks about five words at random out of twenty and "guesses" at the meaning that probably belongs to these five words__ust as little do we see a tree exactly and completely with reference to leaves, twigs, color, and form; it is so very much easier for us to simply improvise some approximation of a tree. Even in the midst of the strangest experiences we will still do the same: we make up the major part of the experience and can scarcely be forced not to contemplate some event as its "inventors." All this means: basically and from time immemorial we are__ccustomed to lying. Or to put it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short, more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist than one knows.

Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

The leader who listens is the one society needs most. They don__ force their commands on people. They pay attention to their demands and set the pace for the change that society truly needs.

The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it.

You can__ lead people if you aren__ going to focus on what__ relevant to you and them. Don__ worry about who is and who is not watching you. Consider what you have to watch.

The competency of people you mobilize to work with will determine the output you will receive. As a leader, always look for people who buy into your vision.

Each of us has a latent energy and we need to discover this invisible "treasure by the way of concentration