The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

If you focus too much on business or finance, then sometimes you don't move ahead as much as you could.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

Focus on your product. A lot of people focus on the name of their brand or the legal aspects, but it's more important to create your product. It's why people join. It's your vision. Without your product, nothing is going to happen.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

You need to constantly remind yourself what is the most important thing that is happening in the world - what is the most important thing that is happening in history. The discipline to have this focus is something I gained from meditation.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

Clarity affords focus.

Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.

Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Learning how to center and control anger, fear, sadness, weakness and learning how to channel that into something smart, cerebralizing it, meditating on it and then moving into it with wisdom - that's important.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

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.

One of my key mental fitness tips is to make sure you are aware of your target and develop a strategy - a routine that you can depend on while in the race. This is a crucial part of mental fitness and preparation.

Clarity affords focus.

We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.