"The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself."

-- William James

#Mind Quotes #Progress Quotes #Inattention Quotes

“I've been in China enough to know that you shouldn't opine on it unless you speak Chinese and have lived there for twenty years. I wasn't pretending to be a China expert in that final chapter. I was just pointing, first to the parallels between Chinese behavior toward us and ours toward GB when we were at the same stage of development, and secondly to how much harder their development path is than ours was.”
“There is a reckoning coming, a reckoning between humanity and the Jewish people which will cause the very heavens to darken and the very devils in hell to hide their faces in shock and terror. You might say we owe them a Holocaust. We've been paying their bill for fifty years, and at some point we're finally going to get what we've paid for.”
“Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.”
“I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.”
“God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.”
“There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.”

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.
“The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.”

Source : Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.181, Temple University Press
“Wait for the placement. Wait for your placement. I will cause you to pull up that place in you that needs to have this piece fitted. If you will reach down deep and pull up that place that only I can fill, I will fill it. There's a blessing that you have not released, and I am saying, 'Pull that deep blessing up. It is down deep within you. When that blessing forms in your mouth and comes forth, blessings that you've been waiting for will pour upon you.'”

Source : "Chuck Pierce: Your Piece is Important. Reach Down Deep Within You. There is Blessing that Needs to Unlock". www.elijahlist.com. January 9, 2010.

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