Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.

Harnessing the power of the present means having your full awareness on the task at hand and having access to the possibilities, the opportunities, and the support that exists right now.

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

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

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.

I have confidence in my ability, and I try to isolate myself from everything going on around me.

Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

Concentrate your energy and hoard your strength.

Channel your energy. Focus.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

Chanting doesn't stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.