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“Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.”

Ideas Term Poor Attention Mistake Photography Let Me Photograph Productions Excuse Excellent Immature Excellent Work

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice. Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.”

“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.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.”

Thinking Want Whole Use Hands Seems Opportunity House Poor Attention Expression Exercise Mouths Saving Vulgar Ale

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .”

Ifs Wells Poor Rooms Attention Fields Yoga Giants Mysticism Hooked Transient Mansions Gaining Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.”

Men May Light Poor Attention Moral Rich Higher Creatures Draws Logic Riches Proof Worms Glitter Rich Man Worthlessness Glow Worms

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

“I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.”

Thinking Needs States Poor Attention Rich Dangerous Phenomenon Gaps Rich And Poor

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed by him pass through difficulties in getting the necessaries of life, this requires his serious attention.”

Ifs Men Real Use Wealth Poor Attention Successful Serious Difficulty Income Employed

Book:A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel

Source: A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman: In the Service of the Gospel

“I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.”

Ifs Way Kids Wanted School Found Poor Attention Focus College Paid

Author:William Friedkin

“You do not have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money. The key is, you have to find ways of improving the way you feel from right where you stand before things can begin to change: By softening your attention to the things that are going wrong, and by beginning to tell stories that lean more in the direction of what you want instead of in the direction of what you have got, your vibration will shift; your point of attraction will shift - and you will get different results.”

Way Want Feels Different Stories Poor Results Attention Keys Attraction What You Want Abundance Wrong Improving Vibrations Where You Stand

Author:Esther Hicks

“If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.”

“Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.”

Poor Attention Rich Grandparent

Author:James Cook