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How to use the word Concentrate in a Sentence? Page #6

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That (80,000 tonnes) is approximately how much you're going to lose and that's substantial in the lead market, it's a very special type of lead concentrate so it's not that easy to replace with other stuff. That's why the lead price is substantially outperforming the other metals.

Stephen Briggs

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9 years ago

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.

Ashraf Ghani

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9 years ago

What they (OneAsia) predicted hasn't happened, so I don't see it as much of a threat but it's not healthy for the game of golf, about six-to-eight of our tournaments we felt were taken away by force. There's still a little bit of confusion. It's not healthy but we're going to just concentrate on our own business and I feel we've got our own structure right.

Kyi Hla Han

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9 years ago

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Michael Friedman

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10 years ago

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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10 years ago

The point I wish to make is this: [President William] McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter & did not ask, Where is he at? By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze & the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing. Carry a message to Garcia!

Elbert Hubbard

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10 years ago

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

Norman Vincent Peale

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10 years ago

Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...

Andrew Carnegie

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10 years ago

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

Ingrid Weir

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12 years ago

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line."

Tom Robbins, _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.

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13 years ago

Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

Kurt Vonnegut, slaughterhouse 5

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13 years ago

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

J. Jacques, Questionable Content webcomic, #352, 05-04-05

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13 years ago

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

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13 years ago

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

Johann von Goethe

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14 years ago

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

Charles Dickens

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14 years ago

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.

Kathleen Norris

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14 years ago

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

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14 years ago

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self.

Erich Fromm

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14 years ago

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

Alexander Graham

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14 years ago

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

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14 years ago

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Watley

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14 years ago

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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14 years ago

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Quintilian

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14 years ago

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Andrew Schneider

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14 years ago

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