..Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put it aside and go on to the next thing without confusion. My husband said that being President of the United States meant that you saw more kinds of people, took up more subjects, and learn more about a variety of things than anyone else. But it required complete concentration on the person you were with and on what he was saying. When that person left the room, you pulled down a shade in your mind, and you were ready, with your attention free, for what the next person had to say. You might have to shift from banking to forestry, but each subject had the attention and concentration it required and each, in turn, was put in the back of the mind, ready to be called upon when needed. Eleanor Roosevelt
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  3. Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive. - Roy T. Bennett
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More Quotes By Eleanor Roosevelt
  1. It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive...
  2. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
  3. Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
  4. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
  5. Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
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