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“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.”

Mind States Winning Ability Attention Health Buddhism Direct Dependent Concentration State Of Mind Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to control your emotions. Be able to glide through them. By practicing concentration exercises and meditation, you will find that when strong emotions strike, you will gain the ability to not be swayed by them.”

Able Strong Ability Emotion Meditation Buddhism Exercise Gains Strikes Concentration Strong Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].”

Ability Attention Brain Tasks Praise Concentration Maps Lasting Divided Divides Lasting Change

Author:Norman Doidge

“Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.”

Has Beens Made Ability Effects Movement Lawyer Bombs Concentration Antiwar Troops Improving Precision Taliban Adviser Pentagon Clusters Weaponry

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.”

Law Politics Natural Wealth Ability Results Moral Economy Economic Equal Rate Factors Liberalism Concentration Vary Economic Freedom Being Equal Concentration Of Wealth

Book:The Lessons of History

Source: The Lessons of History

“During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities.”

School Found Ability Mystery Exercise Members Increase Ancient Concentration Psychics Innate Ancient Egypt Atlantis Psychic Abilities

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.”

Humans Littles Past Goal Human Beings Ability Attention Future Mindfulness Concentration Orientation

Author:Ian Gawler

“Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.”

Men Ability Powerful Higher Roots Concentration

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living