129 quotes found
“The real essence of work is concentrated energy.”
“You can't ring the bells and at the same time walk in the procession.”
“I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises loud talk music you name it.”
“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.”
“Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.”
“If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.”
“A full mind is an empty baseball bat.”
“There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.”
“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.”
“Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.”
“I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.”
“When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth bases loaded no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.”
“Concentrate on finding your goal then concentrate on reaching it.”
“Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.”
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
“She was dark-haired, fierce; she wore two drop earrings made of crystal; her face was a pure oval tickled with dimples; her skin was golden; and her laugh was like a fire in the night. But on her f...”
“Just as there’s usually a space or interval between people passing on the street, even if it sometimes seems very small, a space also exists between thoughts. In your meditation, see if you can per...”
“Concentration is… a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is ...”
“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 un...”
“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 ...”
