Will-power, personal magnetism, memory-training, and success (1921)
Flower, Sydney Blanshard, b. 1867 · Chicago, New Thought Book Dept · leaf 17
its force against a rock. On theother hand, the weak will, easily diverted fromits purpose, lends attentive ear to any obsta-cles to concentration that present themselves,and as often as they may present themselves,and is swayed this way and that, achievingnothing except the expenditure of time,… … WILL-POWER 13 a strong distaste for the subject and all thatconcerns it. Yet this distaste was not at allthe object the weak will had in mind when itbegan its task. Its intention was to do some-thing by concentrating its attention. It hasdone nothing but waste time, which is the re-verse of what is…
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