Citations:law of attraction

English citations of law of attraction

belief that thinking about something causes it to manifest

• 1906, William Walker Atkinson, Thought Vibration: or, The Law of Attraction in the Thought World, Chicago: New Thought Publishing, →OL, page 1:

  We speak learnedly of the Law of Gravitation, but ignore that equally wonderful manifestation, The Law of Attraction in the Thought World. We are familiar with that wonderful manifestation of Law which draws and holds together the atoms of which matter is composed--we recognize the power of the law that attracts bodies to the earth, that holds the circling worlds in their places, but we close our eye to the mighty law that draws to us the things we desire or fear, that makes or mars our lives.

• 1952, Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking, New York: Prentice-Hall, →OL:

  When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you. But if you expect the worst, you release from your mind the power of repulsion which tends to force the best from you.

• 2004, Rebecca Hanson, Law of Attraction for Business: How to create a business or attract a job you love, Victoria, BC: Rebecca Hanson, →ISBN, →OL, page 11:

  Simply stated: The Law of Attraction tells us that we become a magnet for whatever we give our attention to—wanted or unwanted.

• 2004 October 31, Michael J. Losier, Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want And Less of What You Don't‎^[1], Victoria, BC: Michael J. Losier, →ISBN:

  Definition of the Law of Attraction I attract to my life whatever I give my energy, focus, and attention to, whether wanted or unwanted.

• 2006 March 26, The Secret, Lisa Nichols (actor):

  The law of attraction is really obedience. When you think of the things that you want, and you focus on them with all of your intention, the law of attraction will give you what you want, every time.

• 2006 December 1, Esther Hicks with Jerry Hicks, The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham™, Carlsbad: Hay House, →ISBN, →OL, page 31:

  In this attraction-based Universe, there is no such thing as exclusion. Your attention to it includes it in your vibration, and if you hold it in your attention or awareness long enough, the Law of Attraction will bring it into your experience, for there is no such thing as “No.”

• 2007 April, Greg Beato, “The Secret of The Secret”, in Reason‎^[2], →ISSN:

  In The Secret, a slickly produced cult-hit DVD that has sold approximately 500,000 copies since its release last April, a dizzying dream team of personal transformation specialists, spiritual messengers, feng shui masters, and moneymaking experts explain the "law of attraction," which basically states that if you think really, really hard, say, about vigorously cavorting with Salma Hayek on a soft, fluffy bed of Google Series A preferred stock, you will emit a magnetic signal to the universe that will make your vision a reality.

• 2007 April 8, Tim Watkin, “Self-Help's Slimy 'Secret'”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, page B01:

  They all endorse a book, with its clever "Da Vinci Code"-like cover, that presents the law of attraction as the ultimate shortcut to success and the American dream.

• 2007 April 10, “Brotherly Love” (5:33), in Boston Legal, season 3, episode 19, spoken by Denny Crane and Alan Shore (William Shatner and James Spader):

  Denny: No, no, no. The Secret. Haven't you heard? The law of attraction. Get with the program, man.

  Alan: What are you talking about?

  Denny: If you think positively, you become a magnet and pull in everything you want towards you.

  Alan: Really?

  Denny: I figure if I concentrate on world peace, maybe I can actually make it happen.

  Alan: You're sitting here concentrating on world peace?

  Denny: Oh, God, no. Gotta start smaller. I'm thinking Raquel Welch. Get her first, then go for peace.

• 2007 May 3, Mark Earley, “New Book, Old Lie”, in BreakPoint Online‎^[4], retrieved 2012-09-21:

  Byrne says a force called the Law of Attraction guarantees that if you think positive thoughts about what you want, you will get it. “The Universe” will bend over backwards to hand you whatever you wish for: money, a better job, a spouse, anything.

• 2007 March 13, Lynn Yaeger, “Shopping with The Secret”, in The Village Voice‎^[5], →ISSN:

  I now use The Secret’s secret weapon, the Law of Attraction, to attract exactly what I want.

• 2007 May 16, 20:14, in The Chaser's War on Everything, season 2, episode 8:

  Shopkeeper: What are you doing?

  Chris Taylor: Oh, we— no, we believe we own them.

  Shopkeeper: What?

  Chris Taylor: (mimes rays coming from his head to shirts) Zzt. I own them.

  Chas Licciardello: The universe has given us these clothes.

  Chris Taylor: It's the law of attraction.

• 2008 June 4, Vinny Verelli, “I Got Your Secret Right Here”, in Vinny Vents‎^[6], retrieved 2012-09-19:

  If you're falling out of an airplane, the law of gravity trumps the law of attraction.

• 2010 January 4, Robyn Okrant, Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk‎^[7], New York: Center Street, →ISBN, →OL:

  She spoke with a woman who was so gung ho since learning about The Secret from watching an episode of Oprah that she was forgoing conventional medical advice about her cancer treatment. She'd decided to heal herself using the law of attraction.

• 2010 March 24, V. N. Mittal, “Creative interpretation of law of attraction”, in The Times of India‎^[8]:

  According to the Law of Attraction (LOA) also, creative visualisation and affirmation are the keys to manifestation.

• 2011 October 11, Stephen Mansfield, Where Has Oprah Taken Us?: The Religious Influence of the World's Most Famous Woman, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, →OL, page 71:

  As Byrne revealed, the secret was otherwise called the Law of Attraction and meant simply this: thoughts become things.

law of gravity

• 1886 July 22, William Thompson, “Capillary Attraction”, in Nature, →DOI:

  Hence, unless we find heterogeneousness and the Newtonian law of attraction incapable of explaining cohesion and capillary attraction, we are not forced to seek the explanation in a deviation from Newton's law of gravitational force.