concentration

You can't ring the bells and at the same time walk in the procession.

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

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 eternity in an hour.

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

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 your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

A single idea if it is right saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.

If there is anything that can be called genius it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them and are energetic persevering and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Concentrate on finding your goal then concentrate on reaching it.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.