#focus

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

It was in this way that Socrates became what he was, by paying attention to nothing other than reason in everything that he encountered.

Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness?

Formula for my happiness: A Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want air when you are under water, then you will have it.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light of virtue.

To be responsible means to be selective, to distinguish between the essential and the inessential.

The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

To sustain a representation, to hold it steady before the mind against distracting ideas, is the sovereign victory of the moral will.

Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence.

It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.

Whatever holds the attention controls the action.

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.

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.

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

Do one thing at a time, and while doing it put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

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

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

A single moment of total concentration can unlock decades of learning.

A life without discipline is like a ship without a rudder.

Hold onto the source 'I' and everything else will take care of itself.

Where your attention is, there your energy flows.

Master your attention and you master your destiny.

Do not be distracted by the passing clouds of adversity.