"If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center."

-- Dean Rusk

#Change Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.”
“A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.”

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“The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.”
“But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.”

Source : William Manchester (1967). “The Death Of A President”
“The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.”
“You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes”
“I consider Madonna a friend, and she sure knows how to work the publicity machine. Of course, I don't have breasts. If I did have, I'd be in the number one spot over Madonna.”
“When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.”

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