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[Quote No.50188] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"People get better at regulating their impulses. They learn how to distract themselves from temptations. [They learn how to better control and focus their conscious attention and their imagination - on what they want and to ignore what they don't want.]" - Charles Duhigg
'The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business'
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[Quote No.50201] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation [- at least for yourself! Focus your attention on the previously chosen, planned action - the next baby step - and regardless of how you feel now] Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing [and get some runs on the board], that's when the motivation comes [to continue and get more] and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it." - John C. Maxwell
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[Quote No.50202] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others." - John C. Maxwell
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[Quote No.50207] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have!" - John C. Maxwell
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[Quote No.50221] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda ['To Do' List]!" - John C. Maxwell
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[Quote No.50296] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Action is required in life:] Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to fly in. " - Chinese Proverb
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[Quote No.50311] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - John Wayne
American actor
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[Quote No.50320] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing." - Arthur Sullivan
(1842 - 1900), composer.
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[Quote No.50333] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"When the will and the imagination are in conflict, it is the imagination that always wins." - Emille Coue
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[Quote No.50335] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Live out of your imagination ... " - Steven Covey
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[Quote No.50343] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"What feeling, knowledge or will man has depends in the last resort upon what imagination he has!" - Soren Kierkegaard
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[Quote No.50346] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"You can’t do it unless you imagine it!" - George Lucas
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[Quote No.50364] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will [persistently focus your attention, energy and action on] what you imagine, and [therefore] at last you create what you will!" - George Bernard Shaw
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[Quote No.50377] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment... living single thought by single thought." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
(1659 - 1719), a monk and samurai of the Saga Domain in Hizen Province under his lord Nabeshima Mitsushige. Quote from his book of commentaries about martial philosophy and life, 'Hagakure (In the Shadow of Leaves): The Book of the Samurai'.
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[Quote No.50410] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The successful warrior is the average man [or woman] with laser-like focus." - Bruce Lee
Martial artist, author, businessman and actor.
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[Quote No.50457] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." - John Ruskin
British art critic, writer and philanthropist
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[Quote No.50570] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"FOCUS: Follow One Course Until Successful." - Robert Kiyosaki
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[Quote No.50654] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, what is the most valuable use of my time right now?" - Brian Tracy
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[Quote No.50698] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." - Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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[Quote No.50720] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Discipline must come through liberty. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined." - Maria Montessori
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[Quote No.50773] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"...success demands singleness of purpose." - Vince Lombardi
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[Quote No.50804] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." - Oprah Winfrey
American media mogul and philanthropist
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[Quote No.50950] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." - James Allen
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[Quote No.50980] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"I’ve always thought that each person invented himself... that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others." - David Geffen
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[Quote No.50993] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader." - Paul J. Meyer
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[Quote No.50995] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American Essayist and Poet
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[Quote No.51023] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to [and so is left to distract, replace and focus on something else]." - Paul Valery
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[Quote No.51073] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"On how one orients himself to the moment depends the failure or fruitfulness of it." - Henry Miller
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[Quote No.51078] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was 'do it scared.' And no matter if you're scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.
" - Sherri Shepherd
American comedian, actress, and television personality. She was one of the co-hosts on the ABC daytime talk show 'The View' for seven seasons.
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[Quote No.51115] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount." - Clare Luce
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[Quote No.51116] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it." - Harry Fosdick
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[Quote No.51196] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"One Step at a Time:
Learn to deal with your difficult life situations one step at a time. Don't view all that you have to do as a mountain to climb in one jump. Divide tasks into steps small enough for you to deal with little by little. Focus on the specific task at hand and take pleasure with every small amount that you do!" - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
Quote from his book, 'Gateway to Happiness', p.382.
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[Quote No.51242] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts [including the quotes and maxims of successful others], for you will never go any higher than you think!!" - Benjamin Disraeli
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[Quote No.51245] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The past has flown away,
The coming month and year do not exist [yet if ever];
Ours only is the presents tiny point." - Mahmud Shabistari
One of the most celebrated Persian Sufi poets of the 14th century.
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[Quote No.51297] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Act with enthusiastic joy and you will actually experience it. [Act till it's a fact. Fake it till you make it.]" - Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
In his classic work 'Path of The Just' written in 1740.
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[Quote No.51304] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Psychologists have proven that the words, 'I can do it,' are the antidote to the fear of failure that often holds you back from trying. Repeat these words over and over to yourself whenever you feel fearful or doubtful about anything that you want to attempt. Say very enthusiastically to yourself, 'I can do it, I can do it, I can do it!' When you start saying, 'I can do it, I can do it,' you drive that message deep into your subconscious mind. This message lowers your fears and builds your self-confidence!" - Brian Tracy
Business consultant and speaker
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[Quote No.51307] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root." - Robert Burns
(1759 - 1796)
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[Quote No.51312] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." - William Durant
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[Quote No.51313] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tsu
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[Quote No.51321] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Learning How to Exert Self-Control [by controlling what you focus on using alternate focus to distract and divert your attention and therefore your emotional reactions and subsequent thoughts and behavior]:
Not many Ivy League professors are associated with a type of candy. But Walter Mischel, a professor of psychology at Columbia, doesn’t mind being one of them.
‘I’m the marshmallow man,’ he says, with a modest shrug.
I’m with Mr. Mischel (pronounced me-SHELL) in his tiny home office in Paris, where he spends the summer with his girlfriend. We’re watching grainy video footage of preschoolers taking the ‘marshmallow test,’ the legendary experiment on self-control that he invented nearly 50 years ago. In the video, a succession of 5-year-olds sit at a table with cookies on it (the kids could pick their own treats). If they resist eating anything for 15 minutes, they get two cookies; otherwise they just get one.
I’ve given a version of the test to my own kids; many of my friends have given it to theirs. Who wouldn’t? Famously, preschoolers who waited longest for the marshmallow went on to have higher SAT scores than the ones who couldn’t wait. In later years they were thinner, earned more advanced degrees, used less cocaine, and coped better with stress. As these first marshmallow kids now enter their 50s, Mr. Mischel and colleagues are investigating whether the good delayers are richer, too.
At age 84, Mr. Mischel is about to publish his first nonacademic book, ‘The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control.’ He says we anxious parents timing our kids in front of treats are missing a key finding of willpower research: Whether you eat the marshmallow at age 5 isn’t your destiny. Self-control can be taught. Grown-ups can use it to tackle the burning issues of modern middle-class life: how to go to bed earlier, not check email obsessively, stop yelling at our children and spouses, and eat less bread. Poor kids need self-control skills if they’re going to catch up at school. …
Part of what adults need to learn about self-control is in those videos of 5-year-olds. The children who succeed turn their backs on the cookie, push it away, pretend it’s something nonedible like a piece of wood, or invent a song. Instead of staring down the cookie, they transform it into something with less of a throbbing pull on them.
Adults can use similar methods of distraction and distancing, he says. Don’t eye the basket of bread; just take it off the table. In moments of emotional distress, imagine that you’re viewing yourself from outside, or consider what someone else would do in your place. When a waiter offers chocolate mousse, imagine that a cockroach has just crawled across it.
‘If you change how you think about it, its impact on what you feel and do changes,’ Mr. Mischel writes.
He explains that there are two warring parts of the brain: a hot part demanding immediate gratification (the limbic system), and a cool, goal-oriented part (the prefrontal cortex). The secret of self-control, he says, is to train the prefrontal cortex to kick in first.
To do this, use specific if-then plans, like ‘If it’s before noon, I won’t check email’ or ‘If I feel angry, I will count backward from 10.’ Done repeatedly, this buys a few seconds to at least consider your options. The point isn’t to be robotic and never eat chocolate mousse again. It’s to summon self-control when you want it, and be able to carry out long-term plans.
‘We don’t need to be victims of our emotions,’ Mr. Mischel says. ‘We have a prefrontal cortex that allows us to evaluate whether or not we like the emotions that are running us.’ …
" - Pamela Druckerman
author of 'Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting.' Quoted from 'Learning How to Exert Self-Control' article in the New York Times, September. 12, 2014. [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/learning-self-control.html? ]
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[Quote No.51322] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start." - William James
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[Quote No.51354] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Light tomorrow with today! [For a better tomorrow, act today!]" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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[Quote No.51400] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." - John Keating (played by Robin Williams)
John Keating is the character, played by actor Robin Williams, in the 1989 movie, 'Dead Poets Society'.
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[Quote No.51424] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Success doesn't come to you; you go to it!" - Marva Collins
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[Quote No.51429] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in." - Aeschylus
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[Quote No.51430] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." - Woody Allen
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[Quote No.51453] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Be a self-starter. ...[And] Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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[Quote No.51468] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit; that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory!" - Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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[Quote No.51508] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." - John Milton
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[Quote No.51547] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[A story - with a message: burning desire.]
A young man asked a wise man the secret to success. The wise man told the young man to meet him near the river the next morning. They met. The wise man asked the young man to walk with him toward the river. When the water got up to their neck, the wise man took the young man by surprise and ducked him into the water. The boy struggled to get out but the wise man was strong and kept him there until the boy started turning blue. The wise man pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air. The wise man asked, 'What did you want the most when you were there?' The boy replied, 'Air.' The wise man said, 'That is the secret to success. When you want success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it.' There is no other secret.
A burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishment.
Just like a small fire cannot give much heat, a weak desire cannot produce great results." - Unknown
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