When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn’t concentrate on my problem.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I’m in my work, I don’t notice where I am.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

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

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel.

When I was five – it’s not even bad – I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Well, I’m still here. Didn’t have to go to rehab, and I’m not broke.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

If you are going to describe the history of animation, you’d look at the early Disney work, then ‚Bugs Bunny,‘ ‚Road Runner‘ and other Warner Brothers theatrical productions. But when you got to ‚Rocky and Bullwinkle,‘ you’d see they were unique: They assumed you had a brain in your head.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.