A fixed attitude of mind, a feeling that it is done will make it so.

If I could completely saturate my mind with one sensation and walk as though it were already a fact

The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.

so that my attention must be completely absorbed in the single idea, the idea which implies the fulfillment of my wish

The man Who can fix within his own mind’s eye an idea, even though the world would deny it, if he remains faithful to that idea he will see it manifested.

There is all the difference in the world between holding the idea, and being held by the idea. Become so dominated by an idea that it haunts the mind as though you were it.

In the state of contention you are held by the idea without tension.

If I could get you to be completely in love with some state to the point where it haunted the mind

It means holding the attention upon the idea of the wish fulfilled until it fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of the consciousness.

Feel yourself into the state of the answered prayer until the state fills the mind and crowds all other states out of your consciousness.

Simply hold the attention on a certain idea until it fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness.

A controlled imagination and steadied attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the idea to be realized, is the beginning of all magical operations.

The undisciplined man’s attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master.

I set myself to attain mastery over my attention and imagination

All that meditation amounts to is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention.

Character is largely the result of the direction and persistence of voluntary attention.

Then he repeated the statement over and over again to himself until the idea of greatness and security filled his mind and crowded all other ideas out of his consciousness.