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“Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.”

People States Government Jobs Work United Attention United States Deserve Seeking Honestly State Government United States Government

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.”

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

Work Pay Attention Mindfulness Positivity Endless Pay Attention Concentration

Book:Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

Source: Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

“Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.”

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Author:Frank Sinatra

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.”

Done Hands Energy Work Business Attention Tasks Psychics Task At Hand

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.”

Source: Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams

“Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.”

Ifs Giving Believe Littles Passion Work Answers Effort Attention Support Focus Solutions Independent What If More Time Discovering Best Work Experimentation

Book:A Simpler Way

Source: A Simpler Way

“The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.”

Real Beautiful Work Attention Produce Poet Crafts Fixing Something Real

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.”

People Giving Seems Church Work Attention Building Huge Essentials Labor Stones Trade Corners Massive Commerce Steel Shrinks American Life

Book:Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star

Source: Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star