"The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#Focus Quotes #Attention Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Chess is, in essence, a game for children. Computers have exacerbated the trends towards youth because they now have an immensely powerful tool at their disposal and can absorb vast amounts of information extremely quickly.”
“To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason”
“I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.”
“Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.”
“Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.”
“Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.”
“seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”
“Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.”

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