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“Some countries such as Iran and Syria are using the commotion to distract attention from their own problems with the international community. The Palestinians, who have been deeply divided since their election, have found a common enemy in Denmark that unites them. Extremists and fundamentalists are exploiting the conflict to promote their radical agenda and win new members.”

“The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don't yield immediate solutions.”

Feels Children Problem Attention Activity Solutions Yield Pace Take Time Attention Span Frantic

Book:It Takes a Village

Source: It Takes a Village

“For the moment a lot of attention is given to economic concerns, and these problems at hand easily eclipse all others. But the remedies proposed for these problems all come out of outmoded ways of thinking... The remedy? Compassion. The logical feeling that we find in ourselves if we search deeply enough that has to be exercised toward all other living creatures.”

Ifs Thinking Way Enough Moments Feelings Problem Hands Given Attention Compassion Economic Creatures Concern Logical Remedy Way Of Thinking Eclipse Living Creatures

Author:Dalai Lama

“Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.”

Problem Attention Too Much Possibility

Author:Price Pritchett

“If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.”

Ifs Trying Soul Ends Feelings Problem Light Hours Attention Knowing Progress Minutes Solve Mysterious Dimensions Nevertheless Geometry Barren

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.”

Problem Attention Focus Perspective Difficulty

Book:How to Listen to God

Source: How to Listen to God

“Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.”

People Hard Problem Young Parent Realizing Attention Generations Phones Pay Attention Desperate

Author:Judy Woodruff

“When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.”

Has Beens Problem Government Pay Attention Officials Government Officials

Author:Seth Klarman

“A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.”

People Way Writing Said Problem Inspiration Attention Creative Special Conditions Poet Demand Madness Concentration Vocation Creative Writing

Author:Stephen Spender