The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

G. K. Chesterton
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  1. INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant... - Ralph Alfred Habas

  2. Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Samuel Johnson

  3. In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things... - C.s. Lewis

  4. Speed doesn't matter, Concentration matters. - Rana Suhaib

  5. All our focus and strength must be concentrated on striving to fulfill the will of God for our lives - Sunday Adelaja

More Quotes By G. K. Chesterton
  1. Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

  2. There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

  3. Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

  4. The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

  5. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

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