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"You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter."

"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."

"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
Explore more quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps


"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason."


"Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work."


"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."


"It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world."


"A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission."


"Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn."
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