A Quote by Thomas More

Friendship demands attention.

Thomas More

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Attention Demands Friendship

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Thomas More
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February 7, 1478 - July 6, 1535

We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

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George Jean Nathan

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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John Frederick Boyes

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Confucius

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Martin Buber

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

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To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

Peter Drucker

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

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Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

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The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

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