“For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.” PeopleWorldHardStatesEnoughBodyLightActionSpiritualUniverseCoursesLeftAttentionSeeingAirFieldsPressureWideSensesInvisibleDevelopingVisibleCorrespondenceGreat Spiritual Author:Evelyn Underhill
“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsStatesProblemAmericaLeftGivenPresidentUnitedPayAttentionTalkingUnited StatesSpeechOfficeTwentiesIncomeInequalityAround The WorldAgendasSolitaryWagesIncome Inequality Author:William J. Clinton
“In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.” PeopleThinkingHumansDoeArtLeftAttentionOne ThingElementsAccidentsSufficientHuman Will Author:Charles Baudelaire
“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.” ThinkingHeartChildrenHomeMotherLeftAttentionStruggleFocusMotherhoodUnfinishedBeing A MotherParentalMotheringMother And DaughterHappy Mothers DayUnleashedInspirational MothersMothers Day InspirationalInspirational MotherhoodInspiring MotherhoodMothers Day MessagesHappy Mothers Day TextMom And Child Author:Golda Meir
“If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it's a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there's nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention.” IfsMayIdeasProblemRunningYoungLeftAttentionTalentDemandCoreNew Ideas Author:David Toop
“The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could be happy and unproductive as it had once seemed unlikely that one could work and be human.” HumansLeftAttentionImpossibleCenturyTasksRewardsFinancialPhilosopherSatisfactionGreekSignificanceFormulasThinkerSpheresLeisureLackingUnlikelyBourgeoisDrainedGreek PhilosopherUnproductiveHaphazardDilettantes Author:Alain de Botton
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.” FeelsCountryFactsLeftFeltPoorAttentionStrangeDutyKingsIntellectualStandingHorseEnglandInstitutionsWingsBoxesCirclesStealingAshamedRacingNationalityEnglishmenLeft WingGreat CountryPuddingDisgracefulHorse Racing Book:A Collection of Essays Source: A Collection of Essays
“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.” WritingMindMaySaidDifferentAgeLiteratureLeftNationsBehindsAttentionMankindFashionReaderTastePerformancesDressesMannersCombinationRecallsPersuasionLeft BehindImageryVaryAccommodateDifferent Minds Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752 Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.” DesireLeftAttentionQuietVanityNameless Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Frank W. Woolworth once told me that the turning-point in his career did not come until he was thrown flat on his back by illness. He was sure that his business would go to pieces during his long, enforced absence. Instead, he discovered that he had in his employ men who could overcome difficulties when given power to exercise initiative. After that Woolworth left many problems and difficulties to be solved by subordinates and turned his attention to big things.” MenLongProblemBigsLeftGivenAttentionCareersPiecesExerciseOvercomingDifficultyIllnessAbsenceThrownFlatsFrankInitiativeBig ThingsSubordinatesTurning Points Author:B. C. Forbes
“We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.” YearsWarCountryProblemBigsGovernmentChoicesLeftAttentionOur LivesHeardEconomicBalanceEconomicsPaidAdversityMovedSouthEastCivil WarReconciliationBig ProblemsVoicelessBalance Of Power Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].” WorldNeedsImportantFactsAbleWantedSchoolFacesLeftVoiceBehindsAttentionCareersNeededProveElementsSmartLifelongPostureProve ItFooling AroundCenter Of Attention Author:George Carlin
“I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.” DonePainLeftPayAttentionRecordsLet MeMadnessMethodRapPay AttentionGagaT Pain Author:Wale
“In education, it is said that the state must impose schooling on all children, else the parents and communities will neglect it. Only the state can make sure that no child is left behind. The only question is the means: will we use the union and bureaucracies favored by the left, or the market incentives and vouchers favored by the right. I don't want to get into a debate about which means is better, but only to draw attention to the reality that these are both forms of planning that compromise the freedom of families to manage their own affairs.” WantMeanChildrenSaidStatesUseRealityFormLeftParentCommunityBehindsAttentionDrawsUnionsAffairDebatePlanningManageCompromiseNeglectBureaucracyIncentivesLeft BehindSchoolingVouchers Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something.” MenFeelsMayDoeSeemsCertainFallHouseLeftForgetResultsAttentionPlansConditionsMovementAncientMoodIndianPrimitiveCouncilDistractedAbsentConstraintsCautiousGave UpThresholdInclineOmenBe CautiousAbsent Minded Author:Carl Jung
“The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.” LooksHas BeensSeemsLeftAttentionPaintingMiracleCreatorTheme Author:Lucian Freud