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• Please open your eyes now, but keep attention in the inner energy field of the body as you look around the room. The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Lying, Eye, Essence

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.113, New World Library

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• In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.

  Warren Hern

  Practice, Abortion, Littles

  "Abortion Practice". Book by Warren Hern, 1984.

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• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Golf, Games, Measurement

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• ...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.

  John of Kronstadt

  Prayer, Children, People

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• The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

  Jerry Bridges

  Prayer, Anxiety, Praying

  Jerry Bridges (1983). “The practice of godliness”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Anything that you give your attention to will become your "truth"... The Law of attraction says that it must. Your life and everyone else's too is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.

  Esther Hicks

  Truth, Lost Love, Reflection

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Life Changing

  Wallace D. Wattles (2013). “Think Yourself Wealthy”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

  Rob Lowe

  Congratulations, Reminiscing, Littles

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• I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Men, Endeavor

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.243, Algora Publishing

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• The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon.

  Bob Toski

  Golf, Player, Average

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• Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service.

  Susan Ward

  Educational, Giving, Benefits

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• All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Interesting

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work.

  Mike Piazza

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Beauty, Elude Us, Vegan

  Evelyn Underhill, Dana Greene (1988). “Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy”, p.75, SUNY Press

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• Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Weed, Flower, Garden

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• I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

  John G. Rowland

  Forgiveness, Sorry, Responsibility

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• That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

  David O. Russell

  Beautiful, Sports, Spiritual

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• Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Baseball, Future

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• Flirtation: attention without intention.

  Max O'Rell

  Flirty, Flirting, Journalism

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 277), 1922.

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• The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

  Douglas Adams

  Jobs, Hippie, President

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• If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Helping Others, Focus, World

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gossip, Sublime, Promise

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Simple, Greatness

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