Category: Will Power

“CARRYING any business or study in the mind all the time, day and night, morning and evening, does not really advance that business so much as forgetting it at intervals and letting the mind rest, as you allow your muscles to rest after any physical exertion. Mind allowed to rest gains new ideas and new […]

“THE most interesting fact about these experiments in steadiness is that the Will is to have a steady position, but the execution is defective. As the Will is exerted the steadiness of position is increased. This is sometimes so marked as to be visible to the eye directly. I have seen the scalpel tremble in […]

I AM, and have been, any time these thirty years, a man who works with his hands — a handicraftsman. If the most nimble-fingered watch-maker among you will come to my workshop, he may set me to put a watch together, and I will set him to dissect, say, a black beetle’s nerves. I do […]

“STANDING at the centre of the universe, a thousand forces come rushing in to report themselves to the sensitive soul-centre. There is a nerve in man that runs out to every room and realm in the universe. ” Man’s mechanism stands at the centre of the universe with telegraph lines extending in every direction. It […]

“THE sense of touch is the most positive of all the senses in the character of its sensations. In many respects it is worthy to be called the leading sense.”— Noah Porter. ” All the senses are modifications of the sense of touch.”— Demosthenes. THEORY OF THIS CHAPTER Mind thrown into or abstracted from physical […]

IT is stated in Mr. Stewart’s account of James Mitchell, who was deaf, sightless and speechless, and, of course, strongly induced by his ‘unfortunate situation to make much use of the sense we are considering, that his smell would immediately and invariably inform him of the presence of a stranger, and direct to the place […]

THE German Physiologist, Valentin, could detect bitter at 100,000th of a solution of quinine. ” Taste can be educated, as the nice discriminations of the professional tea-tasters show. In subconscious conditions it is also abnormally acute.”— Text Book. THEORY OF THIS CHAPTER A discriminating mind in taste; A cultivated mind in taste; Willed attention habituating […]

“I HAD an opportunity of repeatedly observing the peculiar manner in which he (Dr. Saunderson) arranged his ideas and acquired his information. Whenever he was introduced into company, I remarked that he continued some time silent. The sound directed him to judge of the dimensions of the room, and the different voices of the number […]

THERE has been altogether too much talk about the secret of success. Success has no secret. Her voice is forever ringing through the marketplace and crying in the wilderness, and the burden of her cry is one word — will. Any man who hears and heeds that cry is equipped fully to climb to the […]