"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."
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"Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement."
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"All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready."
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"Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away."
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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
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"What you focus on, you create. So focus your attention consciously, and do not allow your attention to stray to results that you aren't interested in manifesting. Because you can, and will, create more of what you are focusing on."
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"I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them."
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"Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them."
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"What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you."
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"Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health."
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"Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you."
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"Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems."
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"Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being."
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"Success is a product of unremitting attention to purpose."
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"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."
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"Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did."
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"I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka."
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"Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention."
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"Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees."
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"The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce."
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