"Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration."

-- Willie Sutton

#Attention Quotes #Details Quotes #Endeavor Quotes

“Jesus is the prime exemplar of life in God's presence. He lived out of an awareness of the identity God had given him, not the identity the world wanted to give him; he led an active, ongoing prayer life; he took time apart from the world to be with his Father; he made his Father's agenda his agenda; he made his Father's love for people evident in tangible ways; and so on. These are all characteristics that we should emulate in our lives.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.”
“Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.”

Source : "La Havas Brings Her Soulful Songs Across The Pond". "Tell Me More" with Celeste Headlee, www.npr.org. December 24, 2012.
“By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.”
“It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.
“People seem to have acquired the idea that they have the inalienable right to stroll through life without either having sweated, picked up anything heavy, worked hard, or eaten less than they wanted at every meal. This approach is, of course, wrong. And it has resulted in a lot of expensive, unattractive, and entirely preventable problems amongst people who seem puzzled about why things aren't going well.”
“Any time things go to infinity in physics, we know we haven't gotten it right.”

Source : "Astrophysicists: Black Holes Central to Galaxy Formation". Interview with Ker Than, www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2007.
“Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.”

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