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• Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

  Judith Jones

  Food, Giving, Cooking

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• He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Giving, Meals

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• It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Graduation, Sweet, Past

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• What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Reading, Mind

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.37

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• It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Giving, Enjoy Life

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• If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

  Mindy Kaling

  Hilarious, Stars, Kids

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.48, Three Rivers Press

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• Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject: One can judge a building without knowing where to buy the bricks; one can understand a violin sonata without knowing how to score for the instrument. The work may in fact be better understood without a knowledge of the details of its manufacture, of attention to these tends to distract from meaning and effect.

  Jacques Barzun

  Knowledge, Knowing, Judging

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• We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Eye, Hands

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Acts 8 & 9, June 7, 1951.

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• If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

  Simone Weil

  Life, War, Attention And Love

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Marriage, Girl

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

  Kevin Heath

  Kids, Parenting, Love Is

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• In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Evil, Might

  "The Rambler".

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• War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• Friendship demands attention.

  Thomas More

  Relationship, Demand

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• To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Religion, Fixed

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Atheist, Giving, Religion

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• Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.

  Charles Stanley

  Love, Romantic, Romance

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• Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

  Charles Kettering

  Crazy, Work, Science

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• The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

  Dorian Yates

  Strength, Mistake, Motivational Workout

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• ... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Gratitude, Truth

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.80, Souvenir Press

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• I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Accomplish Your Goals, Accomplishment

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.166, Pelican Publishing

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• Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Business, Simple

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• Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

  Gary Zukav

  Self Esteem, Loving Life, Scarcity

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2007). “The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

  Rick Dees

  Dance, Reality, Roles

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• We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Giving, Wonderful

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