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...
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Ralph Alfred Habas
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Samuel Johnson
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...
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C.s. Lewis
All our focus and strength must be concentrated on striving to fulfill the will of God for our lives
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Sunday Adelaja
More Quotes By W. H. Auden
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.
Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
Choice of attention ... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.