Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Concentration

• Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Commitment, Focus And Concentration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

• The only prudence in life is concentration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Focus And Concentration, Prudence

• Concentration is the secret of srength.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Focus, Secret, Concentration

• How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.637, Modern Library

• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Home, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

• Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Fabric

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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