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“If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.”

Ifs Love Giving Doe Attention Kindness Teaching Advice Produce Masters Fingers Vain Monk Snaps Loving Kindness

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.”

Kids Pay Attention Psychology Advice And Love Boring Pay Attention Developmental

Author:Alison Gopnik

“I'm telling you, if you want to have good advice, never pay any attention to the camera guys because they will tell you over and over something is wrong and let's reshoot it, let's do this and let's do that. Hey, just do it.”

Ifs Want Guy Pay Attention Advice Cameras Hey Just Do It Good Advice

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.”

Giving Young Attention Class Advice Investing Investors Devoted Earning Earnest Earning It

Author:Ivan Boesky

“Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.”

Ifs Writing Looks Today Attention Half Advice Pages Following Holiday Notebook Gogol

Book:Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

Source: Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms

“Give full attention and devotion to each act.”

Giving Attention Advice Devotion

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Live your life without attracting attention.”

Attention Advice Live Your Life

Book:The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments

Source: The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments

“The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.”

Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail!”

People Attention Situation Fans Advice Female Letters Asking Mail Exes Love Letter Fan Mail Asking For Advice

Author:Matthew Hussey

“Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.”

Giving Voice Attention Worry Advice Intuition Advertising Inner Voice Jingles

Author:Martha Beck

“For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.”

Source: About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times