Quotes about Concentration

How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?

What we focus on shapes the soul—the mind, the will, the emotions.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn. Concentration

I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

If we think of life as a kind of Olympic games, some of life's crises are sprints. They require maximum emotional concentration for a short time. Then they are over, and life returns to normal. But other crises are distance events. They ask us to maintain our concentration over a much longer period of time, and that can be a lot harder.

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

Thinking is the hardest work we do.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.