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[Quote No.57440] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." - Louis L'Amour
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[Quote No.57475] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Discipline [focused imagination] is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline [to a plan that leads to success] inevitably leads to failure." - Jim Rohn
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[Quote No.57524] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline." - Harvey Mackay
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[Quote No.57581] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"...though the fact of death destroys us [at least physically], the idea of death can save us! In other words, our awareness of death can throw a different perspective on life and incite us to rearrange our [needs, dreams, goals, etc.] priorities!" - Irvin D. Yalom
(1931 - ), American existential psychiatrist and psychotherapist, who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction. Quote from his 1989 classic 'Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy', p.111.
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[Quote No.57590] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Not to have control over the senses [imagination focus] is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock. " - Mahatma Gandhi
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[Quote No.57701] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action." - Ryan Holiday
'The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph'.
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[Quote No.57703] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
" - Publius Syrus
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[Quote No.57756] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in [fearful] perilous circumstances is the test of a man [or woman], and also a nation." - Adlai Stevenson
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[Quote No.57811] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Self-discipline:] You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of." - Jim Rohn
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[Quote No.57820] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"All day long, you are selectively paying attention to something, and much more often than you may suspect, you can take charge of this process to good effect. Indeed, your ability to focus on this and suppress that is the key to controlling your experience and, ultimately, your well-being." - Winifred Gallagher
Quote from his book, 'Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life'.
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[Quote No.57821] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Living the focused life is not about trying to feel happy all the time... rather, it's about treating your mind as you would a private garden and being as careful as possible about what you introduce and allow to grow there." - Winifred Gallagher
'Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life'.
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[Quote No.57823] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Your happiness is determined by how you allocate your attention. What you attend to drives your behavior and it determines your happiness. Attention is the glue that holds your life together... The scarcity of attentional resources means that you must consider how you can make and facilitate better decisions about what to pay attention to and in what ways. If you are not as happy as you could be, then you must be misallocating your attention... So changing behavior and enhancing happiness is as much about withdrawing [distracting] attention from the negative as it is about attending to [focusing on] the positive." - Paul Dolan
He teaches at the London School of Economics and was a visiting scholar at Princeton where he worked with Nobel-Prize winner Daniel Kahneman. Quote from his book, 'Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think'.
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[Quote No.57865] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Focus on the next 'baby' step until completed and then repeat:] Books are written one word at a time. Getting fit is done one day at a time. Clearing our debts takes making small payments regularly. Therefore, goal achievement is about having the ability to initiate small actions and sustain them over time." - Dr Stephanie Burns
Speaker, author and expert in adult learning
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[Quote No.58046] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention..." - John Foster Dulles
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[Quote No.58053] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use!" - Thomas J. Watson
IBM founder
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[Quote No.58097] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"...I'm convinced that focus is the new I.Q.; it's becoming one of the most useful and prized abilities in our economy. But unlike I.Q. you can significantly improve this ability through practice.
" - Cal Newport
assistant professor at Georgetown University and the author of 'Deep Work'. [http://time.com/4166333/focus-is-the-new-iq/ ]
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[Quote No.58098] Need Area: Mind > Focus
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...giving something your rapt attention [focus or Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 'flow' definition] can be intrinsically satisfying. There's a certain anxiety that seems to arise from constant distraction, and this anxiety can be replaced with deep satisfaction when you instead allow yourself to get lost in a single activity." - Cal Newport
assistant professor at Georgetown University and the author of 'Deep Work'. [http://time.com/4166333/focus-is-the-new-iq/ ]
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[Quote No.58101] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The power to direct our focus on one thing and ignore others lies at the core of willpower.
" - Daniel Goleman
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[Quote No.58144] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"...become master over yourself... acquire power over your aye and no and learn to hold and withhold them in accordance with your higher aims..." - Frederich Nietzsche
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[Quote No.58153] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Use distraction - focus on something else - to avoid and overcome negative emotions and to not act on negative ideas and images:] A painful notion takes hold of me; I find it quicker to change it than to subdue it. I substitute a contrary one for it, or, if I cannot, at all events a different one. Variation always solaces, dissolves, and dissipates. If I cannot combat it, I escape it; and in fleeing I dodge, I am tricky." - Michel de Montaigne
In his essay 'Of Diversion'.
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[Quote No.58196] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[The power of imagination, focus and self-discipline for directing your life and controlling your emotions, for good and bad:] ...
First thing back in Milwaukee, I reported to my parole officer, a Mr Rand, I think. After asking a thousand questions and filling out a mountain of papers he gave me an I.Q. Test. When he computed my score his sea-blue eyes saucered in surprise.
He couldn't understand how a boy with a score of one hundred and seventy-five could do a stupid thing like peddling a girl's ass on the sidewalk. [Genius IQ is generally considered to begin around 140 to 145, representing 0.25% of the population (1 in 400). Here's a rough guide: 115-124 - Above average (e.g., university students), 125-134 - Gifted (e.g., post-graduate students), 135-144 - Highly gifted (e.g., intellectuals), 145-154 - Genius (e.g., professors), 155-164 - Genius (e.g., Nobel Prize winners), 165-179 - High genius, 180-200 - Highest genius, >200 - 'Unmeasurable genius', Albert Einstein was considered to 'only' have an IQ of about 160. Refer http://www.wilderdom.com/intelligence/IQWhatScoresMean.html ] ...
I was eighteen now, six feet two inches tall, slender, sweet. And stupid. ...
[Later] I got two years [twenty-four months] in State Prison for Grand Theft, the amount, five-hundred dollars. My parole was to run concurrently with the new sentence. ...
The Waupun State Prison was tough, but in a different way than the reformatory. Here the cons were older. Many of them were murderer's serving life sentences. ...
I worked in the laundry. I kept my clothing fresh and neat. It was in the laundry that I met the first man from whom I got cunning to balance my hardness.
He was an old Drag man with his bit [sentence] getting short [nearing completion]. He was the first to attempt to teach me to control my emotions.
He would say, 'Always remember whether you be sucker or hustler in the world out there, you've got that vital edge if you can iron-clad your feelings. I picture the human mind as a movie screen. If you're a dopey sucker, you'll just sit and watch all kinds of mind-wrecking, damn fool movies on that screen.'
He said. 'Son, there is no reason except a stupid one for anybody to project on that screen anything that will worry him or dull that vital edge. After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theatre and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.'
His rundown of his screen theory saved my sanity many years later. He was a twisted wise man and one day wasn't looking, a movie flashed on the screen. The title was 'Death For An Old Con.'
He died in his sleep behind the high gray walls. His fate was that that lives like a spectre with all cons. The fear of dying in a cell.
I sure missed that convict philosopher. The wisdom he taught me took me successfully through my bit [sentence]. I was released after twenty-one months. I got three months good time for good conduct!" - Robert 'Iceberg Slim' Beck
(1918 - 1992), Robert Beck, better known as Iceberg Slim, was an American pimp who subsequently became an influential author among a primarily African-American readership. Quote from his autobiography, ‘Pimp: The Story of My Life’, published 1967, pg. 38, 52-53.
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[Quote No.58229] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object [imagines his goal], and towards that object habitually directs his powers [focuses persistently]!" - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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[Quote No.58262] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"No matter what you're trying to accomplish, whether it's writing a book, climbing a mountain or painting a house, the key to achievement is your ability to break down the task into manageable pieces and knock them off one at a time. Focus on accomplishing what's right in front of you at this moment. Ignore what's off in the distance ." - Jim Rohn
[http://www.success.com/article/rohn-the-best-ways-to-beat-procrastination? ]
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[Quote No.58264] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind [through focused self-discipline] may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled." - Andrew Carnegie
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[Quote No.58269] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen!" - Chuck Norris
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[Quote No.58347] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision." - Dalai Lama
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[Quote No.58381] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. [We can often control our actions by controlling our self-talk and thereby our imaginations!]" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
(1889-1951), philosopher.
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[Quote No.58385] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Attention [focus] is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that." - Alexandra Horowitz
[https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/12/on-looking-eleven-walks-with-expert-eyes/? ]
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[Quote No.58387] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men [or women] in their power of sustained attention.
" - William James
[https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/25/william-james-attention/ ]
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[Quote No.58397] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like having a mental workshop! " - Jack Youngblood
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[Quote No.58402] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." - Harry Fosdick
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[Quote No.58404] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"No man is free who is not a master of himself." - Epictetus
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[Quote No.58417] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences." - W. H. Auden
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[Quote No.58419] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Light tomorrow with today." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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[Quote No.58439] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.58462] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"We all find time to do what we really want to do!" - William Feather
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[Quote No.58479] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. [Distract from imagining what you want to avoid-stop. Focus on - be absorbed by - something else that is completely different!]" - Abigail Van Buren
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[Quote No.58488] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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[Quote No.58500] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The word 'FOCUS' can stand for 'Follow One Course Until Successful'!
" - Anon
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[Quote No.58509] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't feel motivated; it's that you imagine you need to feel motivated. ... If you can regard your thoughts and emotions about whatever you're procrastinating on as passing weather, you'll realise that your reluctance about working isn't something that needs to be eradicated or transformed into positivity. You can coexist with it. You can note the procrastinatory feelings and work anyway." - Oliver Burkeman
Quote from his book 'The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking'.
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[Quote No.58544] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Focus your mind on what is right in front of you and just do it." - Phil Town
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[Quote No.58569] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Know that prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root!" - Robert Burns
(1759-1796)
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[Quote No.58571] 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.58600] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"To know and yet not to do is, in fact, not to know." - Wang Yang-ming
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[Quote No.58613] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Ultimately, no one can ever be greater than the quality of his or her thinking." - Esme Wynne-Tyson
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[Quote No.58628] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid." - Frank Baum,
'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'
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[Quote No.58737] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in!" - Napoleon Bonaparte
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[Quote No.58739] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely, and then act boldly. Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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[Quote No.58742] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Tell me what you pay attention to [focus on] and I will tell you who you are.
" - Jose Ortega y Gasset
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[Quote No.58754] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Discipline is the requirement for progress.
" - Jim Rohn
[http://www.success.com/article/rohn-6-ways-to-act-on-your-ambition? ]
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