Attending

Famous quotes containing the word attending:

“Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)

“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,—its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)