Thought Power: Its Control and Culture, 1903 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=0ePGCV4K34sC&pg=PA79, p. 79
“We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects”
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 13
“The sun does not set, nor rises, the sun is fixed at one single point.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
Yagyū Munenori (1571–1646) samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period
A Hereditary Book on the Art of War (1632)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
5.4, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)
(1917)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
The life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an examination of his works (1825).
1820s
Context: The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2007, "Modi walks out of TV interview after being quizzed on riots", 2007
Context: I am busy with my work. I am committed to Gujarat and I am dedicated to Gujarat. I never talk about my image, never spent a single minute for my image and confusions may be there[. ]
“A fixed point of view becomes possible with print and ends the image as a plastic organism.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 144
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
IV 9; as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer (1950)
De immenso (1591)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, The American Promise (1965)
Context: At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama. There, long-suffering men and women peacefully protested the denial of their rights as Americans. Many were brutally assaulted. One good man, a man of God, was killed.
