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Concentration
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If you cut up a large diamond into little
bits, it will entirely lose the value it had as a whole; and an army
divided up into small bodies of soldiers, loses all its strength. So a
great intellect sinks to the level of an ordinary one, as soon as it is
interrupted and disturbed, its attention distracted and drawn off from
the matter in hand: for its superiority depends upon its power of
concentration-of bringing all its strength to bear upon one theme, in the
same way as a concave mirror collects into on point all the rays of light
that strike upon it.
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-Arthur Schopenhauer
On Noise
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