 One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
– Jim Rohn (1930-2009) |
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Charles Dickens – The quality of attention
 The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable quality in every study and in every pursuit is the quality of attention. My own invention, or imagination, such as it is, I can most truthfully assure you, would never have served me as it has but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.
– Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
Saul Bellow – Art is stillness amidst chaos
 Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm…an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
– Saul Bellow (1915-2005) |
John Adams – A pen is certainly an excellent instrument
 A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man’s attention and to inflame his ambition.
– John Adams (1735-1826) |
