“No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.” MotivationalChoicesNextEffortAttentionConsequenceResourcesResponsibleBeing Responsible Author:Seth Godin
“Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.” SelfActionValuesAttentionSelf EsteemConsequencePunishmentEsteemDamageGoodwillNonviolent CommunicationIntrinsic Value Author:Marshall Rose
“Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.” WarGivenAttentionConsequenceCourtIncludingInternationalDuesCriminalsPunishmentPropagandaEngagedAggressionViolationDue Time Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?” WayMindHeartMatterWholeProblemCareActionJoyValuesSimpleResultsPowerfulAttentionLearningAnxietyConsequenceConcernSatisfactionTake CareOutcomesHeart And MindPower Of The Mind Author:Brenda Shoshanna
“Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.” MenMayActionChoicesPayAttentionAcceptingCasesConsequenceResponsibleInvestingPay AttentionDecision MakingInner Life Author:W. H. Auden
“Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. Your actions have real consequences. You have to pay attention and focus, and that's very satisfying. It forces you to pay great attention and you lose yourself in the task at hand. Without the risk, that wouldn't happen, so the risk is an essential part of climbing, and that's hard for some people to grasp. You can't justify the risk when things go wrong and people die. The greater the risk, the greater the reward in most aspects of life, and in climbing that's certainly true, too. It's very physical, you use your mind and your body.” PeopleMindRealMatterHardUseBodyHandsHappensActionDiesForceLosesPayAttentionGreaterFocusRiskEssentialsConsequenceAspectTasksRewardsYour BodyPay AttentionJustifyClimbingSatisfyingLosing YourselfAspects Of LifeWhen Things Go WrongTask At Hand Author:Jon Krakauer
“Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.” FirstsCountryStatesAmericaPoliticalSpiritFoundReligiousUnitedCommonAttentionUnited StatesConsequenceAspectOppositesFranceArrivalsGreat Political Book:Democracy In America -- Vol. 1 Source: Democracy In America -- Vol. 1
“The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and never calculate motives or consequences. Giving a young woman a young woman's body makes as much sense as giving ten teenagers Lamborghinis and telling them to drive in figure 8s around a parking lot.” GivingBodyYoungAttentionStupidFiguresTenConsequenceNotionTeenagerMotiveYoung WomenNever ChangeParkingWomen's BodiesParking Lot Author:Richard Brookhiser