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1.            The wise know they start each morning as beginners. Robin Daniels

2.            "In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention." Simone Weil

3.            "My experience is what I agree to attend to." William James

4.            "To enjoy the kind of experience you want rather than enduring the kind that you feel stuck with, you have to take charge of your attention." Winifred Gallagher, Rapt

5.            "Choice of attention--to pay attention to this and ignore that--is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be." W.H. Auden

6.            Your life is the sum of what you focus on. Winifred Gallagher

7.            "The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." William James

8.            "Attention is the withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others." William James

9.            The best response to distractions is no response. Robin Daniels

10.          "Energy flows where attention goes." Amishi Jha

11.          If you stay focused on the right things, your life will stop being a mere reaction to circumstances but rather a work of art. Winifred Gallagher

12.          Every saint's life is a work of art.

13.          Being focused is the next best thing to being happy. Winifred Gallagher

14.          Resign yourself to mere concentration, and you might get some happiness too.