concentration

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

One arrow does not bring down two birds.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

Successful minds work like a gimlet to a single point.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon _ your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and "remembers" what it just read because it's still there, on the page, simultaneously. If you want to, you can reread any line instantly; or linger; or speed up; or optically "flinch." Reading a series of tweets is more like looking through a narrow window from a train speeding through a landscape full of tunnels and bands of light and dark. Each tweet erases its predecessor.

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 Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech _ a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

When Manya read, there was no waking her from her absorption; she heard nothing. A whole household might plan to tease and make a noise like all the zoos let loose with tin cans to play with and yet Manya wouldn't hear till her book was done. That was concentration and it was a joyful gift to have seized from the lucky-bag of life.

Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.