Quotes About Attention

This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.

Jesus, we forgot the goddamn ape!

After a trip to Japan Mitchell famously predicted that the next war would be fought in the Pacific after a Japanese sneak attack on a Sunday morning in Hawaii. Eddie Rickenbacker, who had served as Mitchell's driver before becoming an ace combat pilot, wryly quipped that "the only people who paid any attention to him were the Japanese." Most

You can never forget His appearing and His speaking to you.

We should give heed to the words of the Bible until something as phosphorous rises within us

Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

To preserve our relationships, we give of our time, our assets, our attention, our help, and our love. To preserve our wealth, we give generously as we are accumulating, so we do not invoke the Universal law of maximization, which states that when anything reaches its maximum potential, it turns toward its opposite.

Toda ciencia nace, naturalmente, de una concertación del pensamiento. Pero esta concentración tiene un carácter muy especial en la ciencia: es la atención a la vida, a sus necesidades.

The Divinity is so great, and of such a character, that He both sees and hears all things, is omnipotent, and attends to all things at once.

Are you just going to stand there frying hamburgers while your child could be dying in a fire?

I suppose memories live here and there in the body. But they're invisible, aren't they? And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes is you leave it alone. If no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed.

I suppose memories live here and there in the body. But they're invisible, aren't they? And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone. If no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed.

And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone, if no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed.

But they're invisible, aren't they? And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone, if no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed. But I suppose you're right when you say we should do everything we can to bring back memories of the things that have disappeared.

Tandis qu'ils gravitaient tous autour d'elle, j'avais compris, à cet âge sans philosophie, que l'aveugle n'est pas celui qui ne voit pas, mais celui qu'on ne voit pas ; il n'est pire cécité que de passer partout inaperçu.

if the creator of the universe is spending all his time watching you, it must surely be because he loves you

By and byGod caught his eye.

The decent docent doesn't doze;He teaches standing on his toes.His student dassn't doze and does,And that's what teaching is and was.

Nobody cares about your products (Except You)

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of present-moment reality. It wakes us up to the fact that our lives unfold only in moments. If we are not fully present for many of those moments, we may not only miss what is most valuable in our lives but also fail to realize the richness and the depth of our possibilities for growth and transformation.

When we're being mindful, we're paying attention to the present moment, deliberately and non-judgementally. When we're meditating, we're being mindful of a specific object, such as the sensation of the breath at the tip of our nostrils, for a sustained period of time.

From the many people around me who practiced mindfulness, I realized how essential it is to attend to the present moment, if we are to experience the rich variety of everyday life. Only by being fully awake to the present are we able to put our realizations into action- not to mention make every cup of coffee count.

everything depends on mind.

Mindfulness is when we focus on the present moment, instead of being caught up in our thoughts.