Quotes About Attention

Empty vessels make the most sound.

Where ever you are, be there totally.

Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware

On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don't arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.

Here is the instruction: Only connect. Wherever you are, right now, pay attention. Forever.

Sept.17 (1780). When we call loudly thro' the speaking-trumpet to Timothy ( the tortoise), he does not seem to regard the noise. Sept.18. Timothy eats heartily. Oct.3. No ring-ouzels seen this autumn yet. Timothy very dull.

By nature, looking is a disruptive task.

What you focus on expands.

Your field of focus determines what you find in life.

so absorbed is the white world with its domestic dissensions that it pays scant heed to racial problems whose importance for the future of mankind far transcends the questions which engross its attention to-day. This

Girls want attention. Women want respect.

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

Malory! You've got a chipmunk on your pussy!

there's something broken about women – and let's face it, they usually are women – who live their whole lives on social media, don't you?