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“Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.”

Attention Seeing Subjects Talent Capacity Direct

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat at four o'clock. He liked to direct it. But, to me, directing is tedious. Especially if you're acting in it. And I'm inherently lazy.”

Ifs Made Seems Wanted Certain Acting Four Dog Position Directors Direct Clock Lazy Tedious

Author:Albert Brooks

“Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”

Ifs Feelings Seems Action Together Lost Speak Path Direct Sovereign Cheerfulness

Author:William James

“…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans”

Source: Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes

“I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.”

World Stills Energy Pleasure Risk Periods Direct Isolation Appetite Fearful Minimizing

Author:Caroline Knapp

“Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.”

Comedy Direct Eleven Good Writers

Author:Mel Brooks

“I only direct in self-defense.”

Self Comedy Direct Defense Self Defense

Author:Mel Brooks

“When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.”

Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

“Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.”

Eye Feet Direct Obedience

Author:Thomas Watson

“It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.”

Knows Want Shows Energy Direct What You Want

Author:P. D. James

“... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.”

“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.”

Source: Essential Einstein

“Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the the Bible is merely a collection of imperfect books written by highly fallible human beings.”

Humans Stills Book Religious Human Beings Results Written Direct Scripture Collections Why Not Imperfect Moderation

Author:Sam Harris

“In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book.”

“But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. --- And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls.”

Thinking Feels Might Earth Fall Black Emotion Tree Spring Rain Direct Empty Rising Descending Emblems Happy Things Early Spring

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn.”

Humans Mean Doe Said Running Hundred Direct Thirds Seven Currents Warning Metals Fangs Rail Popcorn Volt

Author:James Patterson

“It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it; it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.”

Humans Littles Persons Lying Loses Secret Crosses Direct Conviction Miles Contact Human Life Borders Inches Fractions Miles Away Proximity

Author:Milan Kundera

“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”

World Feels Should Taken Mystery Comfortable Clothes Ordinary Direct Experience Regions Closets Surroundings Refrigerators Invigorating Daily Routines

Book:Travels

Source: Travels

“I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.”

Knowing Effects Battle Direct Poison Retreat Snakes

Author:Anais Nin

“What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?”

Feels Real Light Suffering Dark Ability Creative Imagine Awareness Perception Empathy Direct Shining Corners Focused Witness Alternatives Proportion Modernity

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.”

Body Culture Direct Statements Representatives Narcissism Arbitrary Disturbing Disrespect Negation

Book:The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution

Source: The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution

“Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most dangerous beasts in the world - hornswogglers and snozzwangers and those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.”

People World Real Country Helping Courses Dangerous Terrible Ten Direct Beast Wicked Breakfast Thick Jungle Galloping

Author:Roald Dahl

“We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate”

Grows Amount Direct Chaos Proportion

Author:Ilya Prigogine

“We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.”

Men Humans Desire Girl Ability Space Cities Boys Men And Women Direct Fellows Administration Human Life League Wilderness Fellow Man Boy And Girl Open Spaces

Author:Edward Abbey

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

Want Life Destiny Environment Influence Masters Direct What You Want Your Destiny Think And Grow Rich Think Rich Grow Rich Control Your Destiny

Author:Napoleon Hill

“They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.”

Ifs Doe Light Evil Dark Female Direct Opposites Males

Book:Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15

Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15

“What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.”

Should War Matter Realizing Horror Direct Intention Guilty Realization Eras Shakes Inhumanity Lethargy

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.”

Knows World Country Earth Wise Car Inspire Travel Direct Window Contact Traveller

Author:Albert Einstein

“danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.”

Ifs Dream Faces Danger Periods Direct Immortal Confrontation

Book:The Western Lands

Source: The Western Lands

“And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you.”

Thinking Kind Made Self Care Faces Guy Sides Direct Busy Kitchen Apples Pie Royal Seriousness Too Busy Hurtful Jocks Apple Pie

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.”

“I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.”

Ifs World Way Want I Can Energy Differences Direct Focused Making A Difference Differences In Life

Author:Bill Bryson

“When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.”

Spiritual Attitude Conditions Depends Direct Ears Select Utmost For His Highest Called By God

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world.”

People World Feels Writing Play Film Teach Generations Involved Direct Inspired Feel Good Changing The World Educate Modest Things Change New Generation

Author:Howard Zinn

“Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.”

Knows Humans Littles Enough Form Left Lines Generations Direct Males Locals Fats Characteristics Hats Forty Genes Carbon Council Apes Fur Ancestry Mixing Descendants Shabby Intervening

Author:Douglas Adams

“Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.”

Jesus Sin Situation Changed Crosses Direct Paid Bottom Available Access Separation Temples Splits Veils

Author:Rick Warren

“Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.”

Way Mean Bigs Speak Language Simple Deals Like You Direct Tables Lays Productions Reminders Translations Big Deal Explaining Right Words

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possibility.”

Powerful Possibility Flow Direct Boxes Bags

Book:Towards Another Summer

Source: Towards Another Summer

“I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.”

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

People Inspirational Together Individual Leadership Ability Results Common Business Vision Team Building Direct Objectives Accomplishment Fuel Working Together Motivational Sports Teamwork Collaboration Team Building Volleyball Uncommon Team Work Inspirational Team Organizational Best Team Great Team Being Together Teamw Team Working Building A Team Meaningful Work Cooperation Teamwork Inspirational Teamwork Cooperation And Teamwork Motivational Teamwork Basketball Teamwork Common Purpose Inspirational Team Building Importance Of Teamwork Leadership Teamwork Team Goal Team Work Inspirational Teamwork In Education Great Teamwork Team Motivational Team Motivation Teamwork And Love Team Building Inspiration Teamwork And Leadership Team Collaboration Cooperation And Collaboration Unity And Teamwork Team Management Team Work Motivational Inspiring Team Building Great Team Building Great Team Work Team Leader Teamwork In Business Better Together Funny Teamwork Teams Not Working Together Team Bonding Individual Work Common Vision Individual Power

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“But then, his revenge had been more direct. He’d hunted down the ones who’d killed his sister and nephew – those who’d survived his mother’s attack – and he’d made them wish they’d never been born with nerve endings.' (Acheron)”

Made Mother Wish Born Direct Revenge Nerves Survived Hunted Nephew

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me." Well, that was pretty direct.”

Thinking Wells Said Heard Direct Yield Eric

Book:Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

Source: Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel

“We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives”

People Ifs Knows Way Sometimes Earth Choices Fall Heaven Loses Our Lives Sky Direct Flight

Book:The world according to Garp

Source: The world according to Garp

“Don’t touch me. It makes my skin crawl. (Grace) Grace! I can’t believe you– (Selena) At least she didn’t spit in my face with her dying breath. (Julian) They shoot, they score. A direct hit straight through the heart and into the raw nerves. (Selena)”

Believe Heart I Can Faces Grace Dying Direct Skins Breaths Score Nerves Spit Touch Me

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“You’ve no more for me than I have for you.” Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: “How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!” “You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!”

Direct Deceiving Sincerely Purses

Author:Georgette Heyer

“He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail.”

Courses Direct Sail Juliet Romeo And Juliet Play Romeo Juliet Romeo And Juliet Juliet Romeo And Juliet Romeo

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.”

Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

“Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes. Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface. Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here. Place unopened pouch inside you shirt, allow you body temperature to warm your MRE. I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and pee on it.”

May Body Left Water Chance Minutes Direct Lays Warm Surface Shirts Sunlight Temperature Left Out Body Temperature

Author:S.A. Bodeen

“i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.”

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