"Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is."

-- Patricia Hampl

#Prayer Quotes #Focus Quotes #Attention Quotes

“It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.”
“Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.”
“A man thinks all dust stays outdoors.”

Source : Ernest Vincent Wright (2014). “Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E"”, p.52, WETZEL PUBLISHING CO., INC.
“I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.”
“I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.”
“I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens”
“Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.”

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