Literary notes about Concentrate (AI summary)
The term "concentrate" is employed by writers to signify an intense focusing of energy, thought, or physical force on a particular objective. In many works, it describes the deliberate act of directing one's mental or emotional resources—for instance, a character striving to fix his mind on a single idea [1] or gathering all available strength to overcome an opposition [2, 3]. In other passages, the word underlines strategic or tactical maneuvers, whether in the military sense of assembling forces at a decisive point [4, 5, 6] or in metaphorical language that channels light or attention to enhance clarity and depth [7, 8]. Even in reflective or introspective narratives, "concentrate" is used to evoke the singularity of thought, as when a figure attempts to distill complex feelings or concentrate on what truly matters [9, 10, 11].
- He must sit down to the table and force himself, at all costs, to concentrate his mind on some one thought.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - My general plan now was to concentrate all the force possible against the Confederate armies in the field.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - And the highest art of all is to compel him to disperse his army, and then to concentrate superior force against each fraction in turn.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll - Whether to concentrate or to divide your troops, must be decided by circumstances.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi - enabled the enemy on the following day to concentrate his right upon his centre.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - Knowing the place and the time of the coming battle, we may concentrate from the greatest distances in order to fight.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi - A burning-glass is used to concentrate the heat rays, not the light rays, which, though they are collected too, have no igniting effect.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - In photography we use a lens to concentrate light rays only.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - He lay back against the ground, deep in thought, trying to concentrate.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick - I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
