Maria Montessori Quotes

Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

Concentration may be my weak point.

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

It does not seem to me that I have the right to foist a story on people, most of whom are children who should be learning all the time, unless I am learning from it too.

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

There are so many lessons in life that can be learned through golf. I am not afraid to say that I am still learning some of them and probably will continue for some time.

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.

A man without education is an incomplete being.