Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.

The mind has to be right and the work has to match the mind.

Don't think about the 50 reps ahead of you, just the next 5.

When I am performing ice immersion, actually I do not think very much. It is all before.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

When I concentrate and focus, they always go in, so I'm gonna continue to do that, and they will go in.

You have to concentrate on the swing.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

The breath of the mind is attention.

If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.