Quotes About Attention

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don't let life slip by unnoticed.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.

Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

We're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention.

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.

Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well.

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.

If you miss the moment, you miss your life.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

I give life to that which I notice. What I don't notice dies.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.