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Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
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Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
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You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
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Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
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Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
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There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely im
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When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
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He who feels no compassion will become insane.
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To compare is not to improve.
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You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me.
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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
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For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?
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The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
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The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.
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A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
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Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with re
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is
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The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
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No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing
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Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
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Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
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All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
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When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the mo
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I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
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He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
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The key to your universe is that you can choose.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
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Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him
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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow
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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
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God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and
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