"Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool."

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Source : "Fine Dining with Mobile Devices" by Linda Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2008.

Linda Stone

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“It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.”
“When you assume responsibility for what you experience and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship, that is the same as forgiveness. When you hold someone responsible for what you experience, you lose power.”
“Japanese music was so crazy! The J-pop and everything. I never scooped up an album or anything.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.
“From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.”
“Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.”
“The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.”
“What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.”
“You can't please everyone. You've got to please yourself, I guess.”

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