Quotes About Attention

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

Friendship demands attention.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The goal in any God-centered relationship should be to continually point the other person towards Christ, not continually draw attention towards you.

Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

1. The picture must, by its mere arrangement, make you look at it. 2. Having looked—see! 3. Having seen—enjoy! The

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

In a society in which everyone is assumed and expected to be economically self-sufficient, as an example, doesn't economic dependency almost automatically mean poverty? No attention is given to such issues.)

Think without any dishonesty. 2. Forge yourself in the Way. 3. Touch upon all of the arts. 4. Know the Ways of all occupations. 5. Know the advantages and disadvantages of everything. 6. Develop a discerning eye in all matters. 7. Understand what cannot be seen by the eye. 8. Pay attention to even small things. 9. Do not involve yourself with the impractical.

In the first several months of life, a baby's wants are a baby's needs.

They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain

The little dogs and all,Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.

It is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.

Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.

The tongues of dying menEnforce attention like deep harmony.

Celerity is never more admir'dThan by the negligent.