focalize
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Versatile men, universal geniuses, are usually weak, because they have no power to concentrate the rays of their ability, to focalize them upon one point, until they burn a hole in whatever they undertake.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
Most men have ability enough, if they could only focalize it into one grand, central, all-absorbing purpose, to accomplish great things.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
They lack the burning glass of a purpose, to focalize upon one spot the separate rays of their ability.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
If it did not focalize, it would see indistinctly.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.
All my motions focalized on pretending to be that guileless schoolgirl who had nothing more wearying to think about than mid-term exams.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
One does not expect spectacular variety in the life of an educator, particularly in one whose labors for fifty years were focalized on one spot.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee
When the attention was focalized in this way, the subject lost sight of the space as a whole.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo
Magnetism is generated by brain forces focalized by thoughts, the nerves are the medium of transfusion, colors increase the vibrations.
From Supreme Personality by Croft, Delmer Eugene
Science is Truth focalized, and there is no real science without truth.
From Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers by Bass, William Wallace
This individualistic development of the communal principle is its intensive development; it is the focalizing and centralizing of the consciousness of the national unity in each individual member.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis
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