A Mighty and Intelligent Power resides within you. The mastery of your own powers is worth more to you than all the knowledge of outside facts you can crowd into your head. Read and study and practice the teachings of this Basic Course, and they will make you in a new sense the master of yourself and of your future. No man can get the best results from any machine unless he understands its mechanism. This wealth of information will draw aside the curtain and show you the mind in operation. Excerpt from Psychology and Achievement The Mind is the instrument you must employ for the accomplishment of any purpose. Excerpt from Making Your Own World There are two fundamental processes of the mind; the Sense-Perceptive Process and the Judicial Process. Excerpt from Driving Power of Thought The memory is the instrument by which your mind retains and makes use of its knowledge. Memory involves, therefore, four elements, Retention, Recall, Imagination and Recognition. Excerpt from The Trained Memory Creative imagination is an absolute prerequisite to material achievement. Excerpt from Power of Mental Imagery Concentrate your mental energies on one thing at a time. Stop spreading them around. Mental energy is like water: it has a tendency to scatter. It is diffusive. It seeks release in a thousand different directions at the same time. To succeed in business you must intelligently control and direct (1) your own mental energies, (2) the mental energies of others. Excerpt from Initiative Psychic Energy