Quotes About Focus

We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!

I'm very proud that I'm smart enough to get to the point

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

the midst of intense activity finds himself in the

Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrument to help us see God.

The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I.

The purer the mind, the easier it is to control it.

He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work

Take up one idea. Make that one 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.

As to the thirst after knowledge, it is an old law that we all get whatever we want. None of us can get anything other than what we fix our hearts upon.

The light of a lamp does not flicker in a windless place": that is the simile which describes a yogi of one-pointed mind, who meditates upon the Atman.

To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at all. I would develop the power of concentration and detachment, and then with a perfect instrument I could collect facts at will.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it.

flying from work is never the way to find peace.

Practise hard; whether you live or die does not matter. You have to plunge in and work, without thinking of the result.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177) PATIENCE

A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work.

they have no thought for anything else, never live a moment for any other idea

He who can become mad with an idea, he alone sees light.

they have no thought for anything else, never live a moment for any other idea, and thus the way is shortened for them. This is what is meant by concentration, intensifying the power of assimilation, thus shortening the time. Raja-Yoga is the science which teaches us how to gain the power of concentration.

the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts.

Y ou must avoid excessive merriment A mind in that state never becomes calm it becomes fickle