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concentrates

«Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.»
«One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.»
«Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.»
«Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.»
«I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself»
«Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.»
«All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.»
«Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.»
«Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing /to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.»
«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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