Quotes About Focus

If you have controlled your mind you are the conqueror of the whole world.

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Six hours of study and six hours of meditation should go on uninterruptedly. That is my method.

Take up one idea! Make that idea your life ,Think of it .Dream of it,live on that idea.Let the brain,muscles,nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone.This is the way to success.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced." ? Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, with Commentaries, and Glossary of Sa

When the body is sufficiently controlled, we can attempt the manipulation of the mind.

be otherwise? One must first know how to work

The powers of the mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are concentrated, they illumine.

Then you will become a man of firm will (note 19).

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

I always wanted to be a racing driver. Even if it was not F1, it would be something else.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.