Quotes About Focus

Determined imagination is the beginning of all successful operation. The imagination, alone, is the means of fulfilling the intention.

Now, here's a practical technique: the first thing you must do is know exactly what you want in this world. When you know exactly what you want, make as lifelike a representation as possible of what you would see and touch, and what you would

If it is difficult to control the direction of your attention while in a state akin to sleep, you may find gazing fixedly into an object verN helpful. Do not look at its surface but into and beyond any plain object such as a wall, a carpet, or any other object \ hich possesses depth. Arrange it to return as little reflection as possible. Imagine then that in this depth you are seeing and hearing what you want to see and hear until your attention is exclusively occupied by the imagined state.

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 for the prize." Phil. 3:13,14

What we must work for is not the development of the will, but the education of the imagination and the steadying of attention.

The undisciplined man's attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master. It is captured by the pressing rather than the important.

Concentrate your attention entirely upon the thing desired."   Oddly

But one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal. —Philippians 3:13,14

The great secret of success is to focus the attention on the feeling of the wish fulfilled without permitting any distraction.

If you want to change yourself, become indifferent to things you cannot change – other peoples' opinions and events clearly outside of your control – and focus inwardly. How you treat other people is no different than how you treat your own thoughts.

The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.

Now, here's a practical technique: the first thing you must do is know exactly what you want in this world. When you know exactly what you want, make as lifelike a representation as possible of what you would see and touch, and what you would do, if you were physically present and moving in such a state.

Para disolver un problema que ahora te parece tan real, todo lo que tienes que hacer es quitar tu atención de ello.

Imagination is able to do anything, but only according to the internal direction of your attention.

Every problem automatically produces its solution in the form of a desire to be free from the problem. Therefore, turn your back upon your problem and focus your attention upon the desired solution by already feeling yourself to be that which you desire. Continue in this belief, and you will find that your prison wall will disappear as you begin to express that which you have become conscious of being.

You must stop spending your thoughts, your time and your money. Everything in life must be an investment

Mastery of self-control of your thoughts and feelings is your highest achievement.

No puedes servir a dos maestros o estados de conciencia opuestos al mismo tiempo. Si quitas tu atención de un estado y la pones en el otro, mueres para aquel del que la has quitado y vives y expresas aquel con el que te has unido.

Whatever state has your attention holds your life. Therefore, to become attentive to a former state is to return to that condition. "Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

The purpose of practicing detachment is to separate us from our present reactions to life and attach us to our aim in life.

As you assume that you are what you want to be, you do not need the assistance of another to make it so. Neither do you need the assistance of anyone to bury the old man for you. Let the dead bury the dead. Do not even look back, for no man having put his hand to the plow and then looking back is fit for the kingdom of heaven.

One of the greatest pitfalls in attempting to use the law of assumption is focusing your attention on things, on a new home, a better job, a bigger bank balance. This is not the righteousness without which you "die in your sins" [John 8:24]. Righteousness is not the thing itself; it is the consciousness, the feeling of already being the person you want to be, of already having the thing you desire.

You cannot serve two masters or opposing states of consciousness at the same time. Taking your attention from one state and placing it upon the other, you die to the one from which you have taken it and you live and express the one with which you are united.

Him, that is able to do more than you ask or think is your imagination, and the power that worketh in us in your attention.