# Attention

> I must focus.  
> Continuous partial attention is the mind-killer.  
> It is the little death that denies all we have of life.  
> I will pay attention.  
> The distraction will pass over me and through me.   
> And when it has gone past I will affirm the value of what I am actually doing.  
> Where the distraction has gone there will be only one thing.  
> Only the present will remain.  

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With apologies to [Frank Herbert](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bene_Gesserit) and [Nadia Boulanger](http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/n/nadiaboula110708.html)