Attention Quote by James Richardson Download Open image “Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.” — James Richardson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attention Character Morality Vices Virtue
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not. — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses.… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one. — James Richardson Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave… — Minor White Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image