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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the res

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. – Thomas Carlyle

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. – Thomas Carlyle

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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer. – Barbara De Angelis

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By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking. – Robert Cialdini

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Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration. – Peter Drucker

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Its tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground. – Proverb

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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I cant remember a time when my mom didnt work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners. – Hoda Kotb

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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. – Herb Cohen

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