She told the BBC that if the lawmakers concentrated intently on what their bodies were doing, it would bring calmness to their minds, giving them a break from stress factors and helping them put things in perspective.
Perhaps if Caroline's personal life had been stable and content, she could have concentrated more intently on her work; perhaps she could have found the focus to stay in a job long enough to advance.
They are hunched over tables in hotels and convention centers, concentrating intently as they compete for trophies.
"You ruined my talk!" shrieks the sweet-faced boy who must concentrate intently to string his words together.
This requires a marked ability to focus energies, to concentrate intently either upon the audience directly or upon a fellow actor and, thereby, indirectly upon the audience.
To a player who is concentrating intently in a point, such an unexpected pause is like half of the musicians in a symphony inexplicably stopping.
Many jurors listened with mouths open, concentrating intently on Ms. Thurman's testimony, as if they were watching a dramatic performance in a hushed theater.
When you looked into the Cardinals' dugout, you noticed a man built like Popeye or King Kong, depending on your angle, and concentrating intently on the game while blowing bubbles with his gum.
ADHD can be a confusing condition because people may be fidgety and unable to focus and yet – as Phelps so spectacularly proved – are capable of concentrating intently on an activity they find rewarding.
"Being alive, however, I'd ask readers to view the difference between the Cloud Atlases less like a director's cut versus the original release and more like two very slightly different versions of the same song, recorded with the same musicians, in the same room, at the same session, with differences of only a few notes and a few words, which you can only spot if you concentrate intently.
We move beyond anything like sub-vocalizing instructions, deliberating or reflecting and yet we are concentrating intently on the behavior.
