129 quotes found
“If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in yo...”
“The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow to live an et...”
“Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.”
“Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.”
“You can't ring the bells and at the same time walk in the procession.”
“If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.”
“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.”
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
