Quotes About Focus

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

Shanta shook her head emphatically, That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented. Not the memory of a form of words addressed to somebody in your imagination.

Deja de pensar tonterías y actúa.

Like a muezzin in his minaret, one of the talking birds began to shout from the tall palm beyond the mango trees, "Here and now, boys. Here and now, boys.

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos.

An intellectual is someone who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Without the least sense of rush or strain you've been working as fast as one of those extraordinary calculating boys, who turn up from time to time.

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Ve sólo Uno en todas las cosas; es el segundo el que te descarría

In all psychophysical skills we have this curious fact of the law of reversed effort: the harder we try, the worse we do the thing.

To the athlete, all things are forgiven

The first condition of success in magick is purity of purpose.

And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or his memory in working order. And neither is capable. There is no bridge. One can only be conscious of one thing at a time, and as the consciousness moves nearer to the vision, it loses control of the physical and mental.

44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

En todo cerebro bien organizado, la idea dominante, y siempre hay una, es la primera que se presenta al despertarse, como es también la última que se tiene al dormirse".

Tú crees de verdad que cuando las cosas tienen un número, y una de ellas, en particular, tiene el número uno, lo que tenemos que hacer, lo que tú tienes que hacer, y yo, y todo el mundo, es empezar precisamente por ella, por la única razón de que ésa es la cosa número uno?

C'erano un sacco di altre cose di cui non si doveva più occupare. Era come uno di quei cavalli che, scosso il fantino, tornano indietro, svagati, al piccolo trotto, mentre gli altri sono ancora a farsi scoppiare il cuore inseguendo un traguardo e un qualsiasi ordine d'arrivo.

I read aimlessly, until I learned to read selectively, with a purpose. - Malcom X

Misfortune is needed to bring light to the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental facilities to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced - from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.