Photo creation of Kyoshi Jun Caballero with Gin Quesada as "victim". (Just to make you laugh):
Xylona Quesada Salcedo, daughter of Ruben Salcedo and Gracia S. Quesada, has finally completed the BS Nursing course in Easter College, Baguio City.
The graduation ceremony that started at 8:30 AM took place last March 28, 2009 at the college’ premises in Baguio City. Xylona is part of the top 10 of the graduating class.
Xylona composed one of the two graduation songs sang by the graduates. She also played the organ accompanying the graduates sang.
After the Holy Week, she will immediately start review for the coming licensure exams for nursing.
lenn Quesada passed the last of the 7 tests that qualified him to be Microsoft Certifiied System Engineer (MCSE). He took the last examination last March 25, 2009 at the New Horizons Testing Center, at the Al-Khaleej Training Institute along the Dammam - Khobar Road highway.
Earlier he was given Microsoft Certified System Administrator last Jan 7, for completing first 5 examinations. All tests including the 2 latest ones were taken over a period of 18 months.
It is to be noted that in SEC Eastern Region he is the only Filipino who was able to complete these certifications in recent years. The first Filipino MCSE got his certification in 2002 just in time for the approval of his migration to Canada.
- Bb Pilipinas 2009 Pageant
Paolo Bediones announced the 10 finalists of Bb. Pilipinas 2009 in the following order:
No. 11 - Regina Hahn
No. 23 - Barbara Salvador
No. 9 - April Love Jordan
No. 22 - Priscilla May Honorio
No. 5 - Diana Arevalo
Nol. 20 - Melanie Gersbach
No. 3 - Richelle Angalot
No. 17 - Mary Ann Umali
No. 1 - Vanessa Johnson
No. 15 - Pamela Bianca Manalo
Highlights of Coronation (Video)
http://tv-talk.blogspot.com/2009/03/bb-pilipinas-2009-coronation-of-winners.html
Top 10 Bb Pilipinas Announced, Barbara Salvador in Top Ten
http://www.starmometer.com/2009/03/08/bb-pilipinas-2009-top-10-finalists-announced
Question and Answer Batch 1
(Barbara Salvador features here)
http://tv-talk.blogspot.com/2009/03/bb-pilipinas-2009-question-and-answer.html
Question and Answer Batch 2
http://tv-talk.blogspot.com/2009/03/bb-pilipinas-2009-question-and-answer_07.html
Coronation of Winners
ttp://tv-talk.blogspot.com/2009/03/bb-pilipinas-2009-coronation-of-winners.html
Gersbach, Manalo, Umali top Bb Pilipinas Pageant
Named before them were 26-year-old Regina Hahn as second runner-up and 20-year-old Richell Agalot as first runner-up.
The coronation was held at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, with the show starting late on Saturday. It was aired live over GMA channels nationwide with Paolo Bediones and Iza Calzado as hosts.
The winners were crowned by their respective predecessors – Patricia Fernandez (Bb. Pilipinas-International), Jennifer Barrientos (Bb. Pilipina- Universe), and Danielle Castaño (Bb. Pilipinas 2008).
Castaño replaced Janina San Miguel who resigned late last year after the death of her grandfather.
Winners' backgrounds
Gersbach – who did not win any other award – was born in Germany, but her mother hails from the Bicol Region, where Gersbach manages the family restaurant in Albay. She is after all a graduate of the University of Asia and the Pacific with a degree in Management.
Manalo won several other awards – 0the Best in Swimsuit award, after which she also got a sponsor's honor, the Manila Bulletin Readers' Choice Award. Manalo, a 22-year-old native of Manila, is an Advertising graduate of the Assumption College who now works as a flight attendant.
Earlier in the night, Umali also won the Best in Long Gown and Miss Photogenic plum. Umali, a native of Batangas City, took up Tourism at the College of Saint Benilde. She plans to be a flight attendant and dreams of putting up her own restaurant.
Runners-up
Shortly before Umali's award, Angalot was named as Miss Talent, for a dance that she performed a week earlier on Talent Night on Saturday. She was also won the awards for Miss Natasha Beauty and Araneta Center Shoppers' Choice – both coming from pageant sponsors.
Angalot, a native of Tagbilaran City, graduated with a Tourism degree from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. Under the stage name Jewel Mische, she is one of the talents of GMA Network.
Hahn, a native of Manila and Computer Science graduate from the Ateneo de Manila University, works as an information consultant for an international company.
Candidate No. 4 Gizelle Jasmin Rivamonte was named as Miss Friendship, which carried the distinction of having been voted by the other candidates themselves. Rivamonte, a 23-year-old native of Quezon City, is a registered nurse working at the Oncology Unit of the Veterans Memorial Medical Center. She graduated from the Far Easten University.
There were 24 semifinalists, but Candidate No. 13, Sandra Inez Seifert, was disqualified a week before for having done a sexy pictorial that was published in a men's magazine. - GMANews.TV
Barbara de la Rosa Salvador is fondly called “Barbie” by relatives and friends. She was born in Quezon City on February 5, 1987 to Francisco Raul Doras Salvador and Blesilda Cunanan de la Rosa who are both medical doctors. The third in a brood of three, Barbie is a bubbly big little sister to brother Ryan and sister Sandra, both nurses. She took up B.S. Communications Technology Management at the Ateneo de Manila University in Katipunan avenue, Q.C. where she graduated in March 2008. She balanced studies, work, fun, and extra-curricular activities while a scholar at the university. When not working as a student assistant at the administration office, she would star in a fashion show or a play for the Entablado group. Quite the trooper, she has also gone spelunking in the caves of Sagada, trekking to the mountain falls of Puerto Galera, and jet skiing in the waters of Batangas. She has also dabbled in some print modeling projects like a wedding magazine and a food chain brochure. Barbie does live life to the fullest in her own merry way.
As a child, Barbie was a friendly little tyke who shared toys and welcomed guests. She was always content with a leg of fried chicken and a bunch of bananas, but icecream and chocolates do feed her sometimes sweet tooth. Among her winning moments as a grader were in declamation as a kindergarten pupil, as Miss Argentina in prep, and winner of “She’s Got the Look” beauty and talent contest in first grade. In high
school she played basketball and left her mark in art class with a life sized paper mache sculpture of Medusa. When
she became adept at doing things with the computer she started helping her mother do her powerpoint presentations for medical lectures here and abroad. And when all else is quiet and boring she hammers on the piano with a few make-do tunes.
Barbie is a “giver” at heart. She gives of her self, time, and talent to those who may need it. She has done supplement teaching to poor schoolchildren, charity work with the local youth for Christ, and volunteered work for their homeowners’ association. She believes that a person’s worth is best assessed when after a good deed both the giver and the receiver have this “feel good” blood rush at equal level. She is joining the search for the 2009 Binibining Pilipinas to further hone her ability to be of service to others whilst representing her beloved Philippines in the spirit of one world that has love, peace, and understanding.
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Bb Pilipinas Press Conference:
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Bb Pilipinas Fashion Show:
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Bb Pilipinas Parade:
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Bb Pilipinas Talent Night:
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Glenn S. Quesada, an employee of Saudi Electricity Company under visa sponsorship of HAKA Group of Companies, passed the last of the series of 5 examinations of Microsoft, which earned him the title of Microsoft Certified System Administrator major in Messaging (MCSA-Messaging). He took the examination last January 7, 2009 with flying colors at the New Horizons-Prometric Testing Center at the Al-Khaleej Training Institute, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
This latest examination he took is about the Microsoft Exchange Server, which is the server behind the email platform of Microsoft usually installed in corporate intranets. This server is installed over a Windows Server 2003 as the operating system. The second, third, and fourth examinations were regarding the installation, configuration, admininistration, and maintenance of the server operating system Windows Server 2003. The first examination he took, which was in October, 2007, is about Windows XP. This earned him the title of Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), his very first test in his Microsoft career path leading to MCSE (Microsoft Certified System Engineer), a path consisting of 8 examinations to hurdle. Glenn intends to take security as his major for MCSE.
As of this writing, he recently passed the 6th of the 8 examinations (regarding Microsoft networking). One more examination, and he will be given MCSE certification. The last one, which is the 8th, is his elective, which is about security. With this elective, he will be bestowed a 'MCSE-Security' certification.
As of date he now has the following certifications:
- MCP - (Microsoft Certified Professional), for passing examination regarding planning, installation, configuration, administration, maintenance of Windows XP
- MCSA - (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator), for passing 4 examinatiions regarding planning, installation, configuration, administration, maintenance of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP
- MCSA-Messaging - (Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator-Messaging), for an passing examination regarding planning , configuration, administration, maintenance of Windows Exchange Server 2005
These examination results and certifications are published in the Microsoft website on Microsoft Certified Professionals under Glenn S. Quesada's transcript of records.
In his hometown, Glenn is the only IT professional with MCSA on MS Windows Server 2003 platform. In his province he is one of the rare holders of this certification in said platform. Most are trained on the Windows Server 2000.
In a networked environment, like those in corporate intranets, the Windows Server 2003 is the server operating systems controlling all other client operating systems, like Windows Vista and Windows XP. Earlier version of server operating system was Wndows 2000 Server, and recently introduced in the market is Windows Server 2008. Majority of Philippine companies currently use Windows 2000 Server. Most companies around the world that use Microsoft products use Windows Server 2003. Some still use Windows NT, the precursor to the Windows 2000 Server. Windows NT is no longer supported by Microsoft.
Glenn S. Quesada is currently working in Saudi Electricity Company-Eastern Region Branch, at the company's headquarters in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He works as IT Project Engineer in the IT Engineering and Projects Department. He is sponsored in Saudi Arabia by HAKA Group of Companies.
He registered Quesada eTechnologies (QueTech), a family home business in the Philippines which is now managed by his wife and mother after he left to work in Saudi Arabia. He is happy family man married to the former Ms. Vilma Valdez and blessed with a beautiful 2 year old girl, Maureen.
Glenn is civil engineer by profession. After passing the board examination, registered Quesada eTechnologies (QueTech), a family home business, which he nurtured to be pioneer IT business in the northeastern part of Pangasinan. while working with some IT and telcos as subcontractor. In the course of managing Quetech, he worked closely with his mentor and godfather, Wilson Chua, the owner of Bitstop Network Services, Inc., the biggest IT and networking company in Luzon's Region 1, and host to several Philippine government websites and FM internet radio stations. Also, Bitstop is distributor of industrial strength products, chief among which are Microsoft and Adobe, Intel, AMD, IBM, Dell,
His father, a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), himself, who organized QueTech, had been working in Saudi Electricity Company since 1981 in various functions as communication, IT, and substation engineer. His mother is a retired schoolteacher who now manages Quetech with Vilma. His sibling, Myrrha-sol , who is married to Geoffrey Eleno, lives and works in Hawaii as US citizen, who, too, is blessed with a 3-year old son, Marques.
The families are based in Pozorrubio, Pangasinan, Philippines, except that of Myrrha and Geoffrey's who are in Hawaii.
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. -Bill Russell
Concentration is the secret of strength. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. -Bertrand Russell
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. -Alexander Graham Bell (Inventor)
Focused mind power is one of the strongest forces on earth. -Mark Victor Hansen
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. -Earl Nightingale
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind. -Og Mandino
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. -Michael Leboeuf
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. -Nido Qubein
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. -Sri Swami Sivananda
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. -John D. Rockefeller
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. - Wilfred A. Peterson
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. -Lee Iacocca
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. -G. K. Chesterton
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. -Norman Vincent Peale
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. -Orison Swett Marden
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven. -Og Mandino
The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. -Napoleon Hill
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. -Anthony Robbins
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. -Paul J. Meyer
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. -Jim Rohn
Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment. -J. Herman Randall
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. -Anonymous
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) British novelist.
The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. -Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American speaker and motivational writer.
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine.
Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work. -Unknown Source
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us. -Unknown Source
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
Unknown Source
Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended. -Ted W. Engstrom
Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point. -Orison Swett Marden
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration. -Peter F. Drucker
Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can't be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet. -Edwin Moses
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time... -Charles Dickens
I'm trying not to look too far ahead. All I'm thinking is one shot at a time, one hole at a time, and that's what I want to keep doing. -Michelle Mcgann
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us. -Anonymous
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. -Og Mandino
It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point. -Andre Agassi
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound. -Og Mandino
Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. -Samuel Johnson
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do. -Arnold Palmer
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. -Paul J. Meyer
If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate. -Bobby Nichols
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. -Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. -Jim Rohn
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time... -Charles Dickens
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. -Aesop
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. -Ray Knight
Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point. -Orison Swett Marden
Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can't be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet. -Edwin Moses
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as
constantly today as the basic principle of concentration. -Peter F. Drucker
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything. -- Lee lacocca
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart. -- Sir Walter Scott
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. -- Andre Gide
If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. -- Thomas Reid
If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear. -- Tai Babilonia
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has owed more to patient attention than to any other talent. -- Isaac Newton
For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility. -- Bhagaved Gita
The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge. -- Arnold Palmer
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. -- Johann von Goethe
One arrow does not bring down two birds. -- Turkish proverb
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything. -- Samuel Johnson
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. -- Andrew Carnegie
One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that. -- Euripides
One cannot both feast and become rich. -- Ashanti proverb
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. - Henry Kissinger
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To do two things at once is to do neither. -- Publilius Syrus
I like to laugh, but on the court, it is my work. I try to smile, but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball, not on my face. -- Steffi Graf
Successful minds work like a gimlet, to a single point. -- Christian Bovee
A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river. -- Chinese proverb
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. -Plato
This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark. -- Bible
All good is gained by those whose thought and lives are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand. -- Stephen McKenna
The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left. -- William Matthews
Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in. -- Dwight L. Moody
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of infinity of experiences. -- Jacques Maritain
One thought driven home is better than three left on base. -- James Liter
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. -- Marcus Aurelius
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him. - Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts. - Walter J. Johnston
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that. - Joseph Rickaby
While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other. - Franklin P. Adams
When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning. - Lord Chesterfield
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through. - Harry A. Overstreet
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
When eating, eat. - Zen maxim
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour. - Elbert Hubbard
I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being. - Charles Lingsley
Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. - W. H. Auden
Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.
- Luciano Pavarotti
The real essence of work is concentrated energy. - Walter Begehot
You can't ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession. - Spanish proverb
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. - Sylvia Porter
Do whatever you do intensely. - Robert Henri
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions. - Andre Maurois
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. - Brendan Francis
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind. - Quintilian
A full mind is an empty baseball bat. - Branch Rickey
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time. - Lord Chesterfield
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind. - Quintilian
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. - Lady Bird Johnson
Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. - Tyron Edwards
I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me. - Carmen Basilio
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. - Colonel Michael Friedman
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God. - Logan Pearsall Smith
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Samuel Johnson
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration. -Nick Cave
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win. Patty Berg
Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton,1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. -Michael E. Gerber, American Businessman, Consultant, Author, Trainer
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. -George Henry Lewes, 1817-1878, British Writer
The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.
Harry Browne, 1933-, American Financial Advisor, Writer
Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment. -J. Herman Randall
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
-Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. -Nido Qubein, American Businessman, Speaker, Consultant, Author
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor. -Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. -Og Mandino, 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
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. In fact, I believe most people fail in life simply because they major in minor things. --- Anthony Robbins in Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
Keep in mind, your moods are primarily the result of what you focus on.
-Mike Brescia, self-help technology pioneer, inventor of the Think Right Now!
System and success coach to thousands of people worldwide
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
-Brian Tracy
He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. -- John Foster (1770-1843), English Essayist
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."-- Epictetus
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp in-focus picture of it in my head. -Jack Nicklaus
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. - Og Mandino
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it. -William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist
The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two. -Jim Rohn
Concentration is the master key to all success. It is the fundamental law of achievement. The man who does not concentrate will be either a half success, a mediocrity or a complete failure. -Orison Swett Marden, Prosperity: How to Attract It, 1922
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. -Unknown
If you focus on what you want instead of what you don't want, you will know when it is time to take action. And when you do, it will be effortless. - Dr. Robert Anthony
"Do what you love; love what you do."
“People follow people who care about what they are doing. You’ve got to show people you have passion. You’ve got to be prepared to open up and say, ‘I believe this’. “
-Mark Harris, Country General Manager, IBM, South Africa
” It is more about your passion, drive, and belief in yourself than it is about your intellect, who you know, or good luck.”
-Roger Valine, CEO, Vision Service Plan, Sacramento, CA
“I believe the people who are most successful are those who do what really interests them. There is no substitute for energy and enthusiasm.”
-Jacques Nasser, President and CEO, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI
"Education will prepare you for anything in life, honesty is one of the primary and necessary ingredients, and a sincere love of what you’re doing is the fuel that makes it all run.”
-Summerfield K. Johnston, Jr., CEO, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Atlanta, GA
“Being a CEO is an awesome responsibility. It takes talent to get the job. It takes drive to keep up the job. But what it takes to be the job is passion.
Passion for what they do is so great among the CEOs who wrote to me that I practically feel their enthusiasm as I read their words. No wonder they took the time to writes such meaningful and eloquent letters!
Passion, I learned, is not fleeting emotion. It resonates in hearing and feeling range, and then is passed along for everyone to experience. Passion is contagious. That is why it is so important for a leader to possess it, and to express it with great energy and consistency.”
-Douglas Barry, Author of ‘Wisdom for a Young CEO’
On Passion:
Enthusiasm, which, though founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rising from the conceits of warmed or overweening brain, works yet, where it once gets footing, more powerfully on the persuasions and actions of men than either of those two, or both together: men being most forwardly obedient to the impulses they receive from themselves, and the whole man is sure to act more vigorously where the whole man is carried by a natural motion. For strong conceit, like new principle, carries all easily with it when, got above common sense and freed from all restraint of reason and check of reflection, it is heightened into a divine authority, in concurrence with our own temper and inclination.
Though the odd opinions and extravagant actions enthusiasm has run men into were enough to warn them against this wrong principle, so apt to misguide them both in their belief and conduct: yet the of love something extraordinary, the ease and glory it is to be inspired and be above the common and natural ways of knowledge, so flatters many men’s laziness, ignorance, and vanity that, when once they are got into this way of immediate revelation, of illumination without search, and of certainty without proof and without examination, it is hard matter to get them out of it. Reason is lost upon them, they are above it; they see the light infused into their understandings, and cannot be mistakes: it is clear and visible there, like the light of bright sunshine, shows itself, and needs no other proof but its own evidence; they feel the hand of God moving them wihtin and the impulsed of th Spirit, and cannot be mistaken in what they feel. Thus they support themselves and are sure reason hath nothing to do with what they see and feel in themselves: what they have a sensible experience admits no doubt, needs no probation. Would he not be ridiculous who should require to have it proved to him that the light shines and that he sees it? It is its own proof and can have no other. When the spirit brings light into our minds, it dispels darkness. We see it as we do that to of the sun at noon, and need not the twilight of reason to show it us. This light from heaven is strong, clear, and pure, carries its own demonstration with it, and we may as rationally take a glow-worm to assist us to discover the sun as to examine the celestial ray by our dim candle, reason.
- John Lock, from ‘Essay Concerning Human Understanding’
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996
The man who has done his best has done everything. ~Charles M. Schwab
The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~Author Unknown
In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. ~Kristian Kan, Rich By 25
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman
Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra
Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971
I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers
When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Author Unknown
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius
You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford
To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. ~Joe Cordare
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ~Walter Savage Landor
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne
To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will. ~Stephen MacKenna
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~Washington Irving
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. ~George Bernard Shaw
An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ~José Ortega y Gasset
A useless life is an early death. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead. ~C. Astrid Weber
When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892
We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder. ~Paul Vitale
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~Seneca
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ~Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974
If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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