“Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.” PeopleEndsAmericaMovingOrderEffortAttentionSucceedMoving ForwardImpulseAbandonedElsewhereVigorousPrecisionUndertakingsShort LivedOrder To Succeed Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.” PeopleShouldCountryInterestNaturalWealthAttentionRiskMaterialsIndustryCivilizationDegreesLaborTreasureInvitesElsewhereLimitlessMaterial Wealth Author:Alfred Adler
“If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.” IfsMatterEnjoyAttentionSuccessfulAngryConfusedElsewhere Book:Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion Source: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
“All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.” PeopleFeelsTwoMatterShowsAttentionAmountConversationEmpathyResearchPhonesTwo ThingsElsewhereSignalsDecrease Author:Judy Woodruff