#Focus Quotes

“If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.”

“The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.”

“The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.”

“Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.”

“Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.”

“Concentration is the secret of srength.”

“Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.”

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

“We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.”

“Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.”

“Take a Deep Breath & Focus on What's Really Important.”

“Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind.”

“Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.”

“Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.”

“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”

“The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits”

“Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.”

“While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.”

“The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.”

“To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”

“The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.”

“Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.”

“As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.”

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.”

“So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.”

“Everything that you are against works against you. Everything that you are against can be restated in a way that puts you in support of something. When you are able to state what you are for rather than what you are against, you are focusing on the potential for positive change. Once that is in place, you will find whatever you are focusing on expanding.”

“Abraham Maslow taught me, that when you're working with a patient, never let them spend more than a few moments on the problem, because what you think about is what expands, and if they're talking about the problem all the time, when they leave your session, the problem will expand. Get 'em to put their attention on what they intend to create, or on solutions.”

“Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.”

“The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.”

“Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.”

“When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities.”

“Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”

“Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.”

“The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their intention on what they don't want. They know that what you think about is what expands.”

“Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.”

“Do not be 'against' anything. Being 'against' weakens you.Be 'for' what you want. Being 'for' empowers you.”

“I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants”

“The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.”

“So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.”

“The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.”

“You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”

“Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.”

“Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you.”

“People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.”

“When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.”

“How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?”

“Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.”

“You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.”

“The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.”