Concentrated Quotes

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

What is art? Nature concentrated.