129 quotes found
“The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening ones eyes without seeing anything.”
“When you fully focus your mind,you make others attracted to you.”
“Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of peace, calmly intent on her needles and her silk, some discussion meantime going on around her, in ...”
“...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put it aside and go on to the next thing without confusion. My husband said that being President of ...”
“The secret of concentration is to shut down the other windows.”
“Like all great readers, he could create for himself a "wall of stillness".”
“The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".”
“MAKE SUCCESS HAPPENSuccess is like a camera. Only focus on what is most important. Ignore trivial details. Concentrate on your main goal image for success. Develop your pictures. If they don't turn...”
“When the zone calls, you must listen. You never know how long being in the zone lasts.It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.”
“The erotic state again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unex...”
“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.”
“Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, p...”
“He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision--concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has ...”
“Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crow...”
“To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.”
“Religion demands above all the concentration of the spirit...it is a thrusting into the unity of all things so as to come to grips in the hiddenness of the soul with the unity of the One from Whom ...”
“The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in ...”
“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.”
“It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.”
“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”
