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"The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror."
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"Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention."

"Stay focused, leave everything and do something."

"I have discovered that you will achieve nothing if you pursue everything. Be specific and stay focused."

"Through the years, I have heard that the average person speaks at about 150-160 words per minute, but can listen at a rate of about 1,000 words per minute. What is going on during all that extra mind time? Our minds are racing ahead and preparing for the next thing we are going to say. We are preoccupied with other thoughts, priorities, and distractions. Our subconscious filters are thumbing through our database of memories, judgments, experiences, perspectives, and opinions to frame how we are going to interpret what we think someone is saying."

"Don't live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don't have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you must have been living your life carelessly."

"Don't care about day to day things, don't care about the mundane, but care about what matters."
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"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art."

"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said."

"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it."

"It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being."

"Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live."
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