~ Concentration Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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

Brendan Francis

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[highlight-text]The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Stephen McKenna

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[highlight-text]Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Andrew Carnegie

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[highlight-text]This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark!

Bible

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[highlight-text]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.

Carmen Basilio

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[highlight-text]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.

Sir Walter Scott

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[highlight-text]The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point and to go directly to that point looking neither to the right nor the left.

William Matthews

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Joseph Rickaby

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[highlight-text]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.

Lord Chesterfield

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[highlight-text]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.

Arnold Palmer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Thomas Reid

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Elbert Hubbard

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[highlight-text]No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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[highlight-text]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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes