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• The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

  Peter Drucker

  Focus, Cost, May

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• Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

  Isabel Allende

  Reflection, Journey, Language

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• Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

  Adrienne Rich

  Nails, Able

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.168, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

  Michelle Cruz

  Kindness, Focus, Attention

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• Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Pioneers

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.50, Random House

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• Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

  John C. Maxwell

  Feelings, Action, Difficult

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul. That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of "how beautiful this is" is a prayer of appreciation, a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Real, Passion

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• The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Independent, Thinking, Desire

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• Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!

  Brigham Young

  Giving, Effort, Vision

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• A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Religious, Black

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

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• In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

  Jack Kornfield

  Mean, Expression, Mind

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• It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable

  Etty Hillesum

  Hate, Healing, Thinking

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.529, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Circles

  Jeanette Winterson (1991). “Sexing the Cherry”, Vintage

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• To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.

  Oswald Spengler

  Drama, Views, Media

  "The Decline of the West (Volume II)". Book by Oswald Spengler, 1928.

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• A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

  Boris Pasternak

  Fall, Insomnia, Light

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• the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Teacher, Adventure

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• But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pain, Years, Essence

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• I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn't come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.

  Peter Cameron

  Dream, Coffee, People

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.85, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Believe, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8184, Delphi Classics

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• From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Simple, Simplicity, Needs

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Susunaga Weeraperuma (1996). “Sayings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.181, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of faces, the view from where I now stood, a little more various. If they could have heard me, I would have confided in them: As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wall, Views, Years

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.164, Vintage

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• For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

  Henry Miller

  Adventure, Self, Space

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.

  Gregory Maguire

  Home, Eye, Filled Up

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• And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.

  Louise Rennison

  Pigs, Voice, Secret

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