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“My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.”

People Ifs Belief Pay Attention Teach Dying Forgiving Pay Attention Sweat Small Things

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.”

People Humans Natural Pay Attention Teach Skills Pay Attention

Author:Natalie Portman

“Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.”

Thinking World Children Turns Attention Teach Inspire Lessons Findings Our Children Details Pay Attention Your Children Observers Processing Analyzing Attention To Detail

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“What I teach the people many times is that attitude and attention will determine the whole course of our lives. Get rid of fear and that is all you ever have to get rid of. Fear of anything at all.”

People Whole Courses Attention Attitude Teach Our Lives Determine

Author:Norval Morrisseau

“Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.”

Humans May Real Purpose Turns Human Beings Effort Attention Teach Honest Morality Draws Bases Realization Being Honest Geometry Magnificence

Author:Madame de Stael

“People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.”

People Littles Girl Sports Enjoy Attention Teach Movement Boxes Exhilaration

Author:Tenley Albright

“Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere - the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.”

People Ifs Firsts Voice Interest Simple Attention Teach Lessons News Claims Regard Affection Sincere Capture Sermons

Book:The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus

Source: The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus

“In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.”

Giving Heart Spirit Prayer Rooms Attention Teach Praying Draws Engaged Thank God Thankfulness

Author:Andy Murray

“Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.”

Way Writing Heart Mean Matter Hard Order Process Attention Teach Taught Poet Hard Work Bears Discipline Fruit Mess Pay Attention Scratches Erase Wrong Way Blur Matters Of The Heart

Author:Kathleen Norris

“Women have to be careful and teach their girls to be aware of their surroundings and never be alone with testosterone-crazed boys. A lot of little lives are being ruined and our society is to blame. Our kids are just searching and being curious but they are dangerously looking for the wrong kind of attention.”

Kind Littles Kids Girl Attention Boys Teach Blame Careful Curious Our Society Be Careful Ruined Surroundings Testosterone

Author:Pamela Anderson

“Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.”

People Whole Body Pay Attention Situation Teach Letting Go Reactions Obsession Pay Attention Superficial Chatter

Book:The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

“Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.”