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[Quote No.53682] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk." - Jean-Paul Sartre
(1905 - 1980)
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[Quote No.53773] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Here are the thirteen virtues that Benjamin Franklin set for himself throughout his life, in his own words, plus his added commentary, as he defined them in 1741 and wrote them in his autobiography for the edification and emulation of his children and those who read his autobiography:]
--- Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
--- Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
--- Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
--- Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve!
--- Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
--- Industry. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions!
--- Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
--- Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
--- Moderation. Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
--- Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
--- Tranquillity. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
--- Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
--- Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates." - Ben Franklin
From his book, 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'.
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[Quote No.53789] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"He [Alexander the Great] asked them [the Jewish sages of the south], 'Who is called a 'wise man'?' They responded to him, 'The person who sees the consequence of their action!' [Keep your eyes on the prize!]
" - Talmud
Talmud - Tamid 32a
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[Quote No.53846] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Focus on your thoughts - what you imagine, because:] Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw
These words or similar have also been credited to Charles Reade.
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[Quote No.53890] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"All that we are is made up of our thoughts [what we focus on]; it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts." - Buddha
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[Quote No.53911] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives!
" - Louise Hay
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[Quote No.54043] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"People do not lack strength, they lack will." - Victor Hugo
(1802-1885) French writer
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[Quote No.54063] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will!" - Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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[Quote No.54065] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The way we do things is to begin. [Get inertia on your side. Well begun is half done!]" - Horace Greeley
(1811 - 1872)
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[Quote No.54215] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"But, whether the attention [focus] come by grace of genius or by dint of will, the longer one does attend to [focus on] a topic the more mastery of it one has. And the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention [focus], over and over again [persistently], is the very root of judgment, character, and will. No one is 'compos sui' [latin for 'master of one's self'] if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence." - William James
(1842 – 1910) American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. Often referred to as 'The Father of American Psychology'. Quote from his book, 'The Principles of Psychology', (1890).
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[Quote No.54304] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[A story - with a message about the desire required to ensure success:] 'The Secret Of Success'
There was once a boy who wanted the secret of success. One day he approached a wise man living up in the mountains. When he found the wise man at his hut, he asked, ‘Wise man, can you tell me the secret to becoming successful in life?’ After a moment of silence, the wise man beckoned him and led the young lad to a nearby river. They kept walking into the river until the boy had to struggle to keep his head above the water. To his astonishment, the wise man did not help him. Instead, the wise man held the boy’s head underwater. After a few minutes with the boy struggling more and more, the wise man pulled the boy out of the water and, as the boy tried to catch his breath, sitting on the river-bank the wise man asked the young boy what he desired most when his head was submerged in the water.
To this the young boy quickly responded, ‘Of course, I wanted to breathe, you old fool!’ To which the wise man replied, ‘Son, the true secret of success is to desire success as much as you just wanted to breathe, then you will overcome the extraordinary obstacles all successes must overcome. Success is a matter of choice. If we have enough strong reasons, there is nothing that you or anyone cannot do. Once we have the reasons to do something, we will surely find a way to do it and act despite the obstacles and failures. A mere wish will not have the power. Only a burning desire, turned into an obsession will generate the energy to do that. But beware you do not violate morality - do not defraud or force anyone - or by disregarding others' right to free, informed choice you will only bring on your own eventual destruction.' " - Unknown
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[Quote No.54354] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[A poem: about the importance of doing what is important as soon as possible and not procrastinating:-]
'The Clock of Life'
The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.
To lose one’s wealth is sad indeed,
To lose one’s health is more,
To lose one’s soul is such a loss
That no man can restore.
The present only is our own,
So Live, Love, toil with a will
Place no faith in ‘Tomorrow’.......
......For the clock may then be still.
" - Robert H. Smith
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[Quote No.54455] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The future is purchased by [what we do in] the present." - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.54486] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Attention [of senses and imagination] is the basis of all higher cognitive and emotional abilities!" - Chade-Meng Tan
Chade-Meng Tan, known informally as Meng, is a software engineer and motivator at Google known especially for greeting celebrities who visit the Google campus. He is Google employee number 107 and his job title is Jolly Good Fellow. Quote from his book, 'Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected path to Achieving Profits, Happiness (and World Peace)'.
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[Quote No.54496] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." - Lin Yu Tang
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[Quote No.54519] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention!" - Jim Rohn
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[Quote No.54563] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind." - William James
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[Quote No.54575] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[When asked about his extreme productivity and the stringency of his 18-hour-workdays dedication to success. the inventor Edison explained:]
You do something all day long, don’t you? Everyone does. If you get up at seven o’clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put in sixteen good hours, and it is certain that you have been doing something all that time. The only difference is that you do a great many things and I do one. If you took the time in question and applied it in one direction, you would succeed. Success is sure to follows such application. The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have one thing to stick to, letting all else go." - Thomas Edison
Famous inventor
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[Quote No.54584] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is [almost] sure of getting it." - Andre Gide
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[Quote No.54748] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"If thou intend to do any good; tarry not till to-morrow! for thou knowest not what may chance thee this night!" - Pythagoras
(circa 582 BC – circa 496 BC), Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist.
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[Quote No.54754] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Lack of planning,] Indecision and [unnecessary] delay are the parents of failure!" - George Canning
statesman
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[Quote No.54762] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows." - Pope Paul VI
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[Quote No.54901] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law." - Orison Marden
writer
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[Quote No.54913] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good'." - Stephen R. Covey
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[Quote No.54944] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Let one therefore keep the mind pure [clear, positive, focused only on what is desired - the next step in the plan to achieve what is wanted for the future], for what a man thinks, that he becomes! " - The Upanishads
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[Quote No.54975] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves." - Joseph Thompson
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[Quote No.55110] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets!" - Benjamin Disraeli
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[Quote No.55154] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"For the being who has conquered the mind; that beings mind is the best of friends; But for one whose mind is uncontrolled, that very mind acts as the worst of enemies. [Bandhur atmatmanas tasya yenatmaivatmana jitah
anatmanas tu satrutve vartetatmaiva satruvat]
" - Mahabharata [Hindu]
Hindu epic poem, circa 800 BCE.
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[Quote No.55176] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind. [Yogas citta vritti nirodhah.]
" - Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras [Hindu]
The above quote comes from Patanjali’s 'Yoga Sutras', the most commonly referenced text on yoga today, which was written dating between 200 BCE - 200 CE, and lays out the definition of yoga in the second sutra as quoted above.
While Patanjali codified the many existing teachings on yoga at his time, some of which are seen in Buddhism and Jainism [naturally as both of these religions were evolved from Hinduism], it cannot be ignored that yoga and references to its practice existed within Hindu scripture long before his 'Yoga Sutras'. [Refer https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Yoga ]
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[Quote No.55191] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush..." - Virginia Woolf
(1882-1941)
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[Quote No.55203] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Will-power and self-discipline:] He's a slave, that cannot command himself.
" - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
(1654 - 1734)
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[Quote No.55229] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries." - Corita Kent
nun, artist and educator
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[Quote No.55250] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win." - Edward Gibbon
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[Quote No.55312] 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." - Napoleon Hill
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[Quote No.55319] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward." - Napoleon Hill
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[Quote No.55327] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"One way to further develop hope and optimism about the future, after all practical methods to prepare for it have been taken, is to remind yourself that humans are born with an previously evolutionarily useful negativity bias - that thought it better to be frightened by thinking a log was a lion than to mistake a lion for a log - and so it is rationally helpful to generate a counteracting positivity bias against that negativity using the concept that the negative FEAR stands for False Evidence Appearing Real!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.55335] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Given the negativity bias of the brain, which evolved in the distant past when our survival depended more on being 'safe rather than sorry' and therefore jumping before asking questions, it is natural for us to picture the worst about the future. The unfortunate thing about this is after you have done all you can to prepare for the future this kind of negative idea-image focusing - for example worrying in competitions - actually impairs your performance. Knowing this therefore it is useful, in these situations, to not focus on what you don't want to happen but instead to focus on what good, positive things you want to happen, which - by decreasing your debilitating fear - increases their likelihood, making a positive self-fulfilling prophecy." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.55361] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Realism then optimism:] You have to be very calculating in selecting the right shot. You have to make a decision based upon a realistic assessment of your own weaknesses and the scope for failure. But once you have committed to your decision, you have to flick the mental switch [to focus only on the positive outcome] and execute the shot as if there was never any doubt that you would nail it." - Nick Faldo
Champion golfer
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[Quote No.55368] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once [i.e. focus on the next step, then the next step, etc]." - Samuel Smiles
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[Quote No.55417] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state." - Steve Pavlina
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[Quote No.55459] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"In many situations in life the future can 'look' terrible and fearful. At these times in the past, faith in religion and a benevolent god, and adherence to its prescribed behaviour that demonstrated belief and therefore justified 'salvation' was helpful as it made it possible for people to 'imagine' a positive future and to go on doing what was necessary to survive. In a technological present where faith is less common, Buddhist present focus - 'be here now' - has been found to relieve anxiety about imagined negative futures. Another helpful thing that science has found is that in the past - but no longer, there was an evolutionary survival advantage to having an imagination with a negativity bias so we were hyper-vigilant and didn't underestimate dangers. Keeping this scientific understanding in mind allows people to rationally argue [refer RET - Rational Emotive Therapy and CBT - Cognitive Behavior Therapy] with their often too negative imagination, reminding themselves that their FEAR is most likely False Evidence Appearing Real and therefore having sensible faith in a consciously, more positively imagined and described future, thereby relieving anxiety and enabling greater productivity and happiness!" - Ben O'Grady
Founder and CEO of imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.55463] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Working in focused blocks of time is more effective and efficient than multitasking:] It takes more energy to shift your attention from task to task. It takes less energy to focus. That means that people who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it!" - Daniel J. Levitin
Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, is the James McGill Professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience at McGill University, where he also teaches in the graduate school of business. This quote is from his book 'The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload', 2014, Page 170.
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[Quote No.55507] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
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[Quote No.55510] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose [to focus on] one thought over another." - William James
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[Quote No.55519] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"This is Zen mind – cutting off all thinking and directing all your energy to one point." - Seung Sahn
(1927–2004) Seung Sahn Soen-sa was a great Korean-born Zen teacher. This is a quote from his book, 'Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn', 1976.
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[Quote No.55532] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Ambition and love are the wings of great actions!
" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[Quote No.55556] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
" - Honore de Balzac
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[Quote No.55559] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large." - Henry Wheeler Shaw
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[Quote No.55669] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done!" - Vincent Van Gogh
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[Quote No.55697] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose [and then plan and focus on that choice]." - Viktor E. Frankl
(1905 - 1997) Psychiatrist and author.
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