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“Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.”

Mind Behinds Attention Constant Active Blank Pow Active Minds

Author:Charles Churchill

“Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.”

World Done Used Attention Seeing Photography Conscious Possession Active Mediums Substitutes Assured Supplements Employing

Author:Alain de Botton

“But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.”

Moving Pay Attention Awareness Active Observation Pay Attention Passive Absorption

Book:Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Source: Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

“I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.”

Giving Attention Military Duty Extraordinary Active Reserves National Guard

Author:Sanford Bishop

“I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.”

Believe Ideas Reality Used Individual I Believe Attention Moral Mark Active Agents Characteristics

Book:The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts

Source: The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts