Quotes About Attention

Stay alive, don't text and drive.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Sherlock Holmes pointed out that one might see, yet not observe. That's a basic cause of much human failure.

Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.

In the spring of 1919 La Guardia found himself still way down on the seniority list in a Congress described by muckraking editor H. L. Mencken as "petty lawyers and small-town bankers" and a "depressing gang of incompetents." All La Guardia could do was rail at "outrages" in speeches that few people paid attention to and cast votes that changed nothing. Not even the "progressives," such as Robert La Follette and George Norris, took him seriously.

A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

Act on awareness, not on thought

Our projection can provide insight if we are paying attention to our projection

The garden we tend to flourishes, the garden we neglect withers away

The more we focus on a problem, the more of a problem it becomes

You can be aware without being awake, but you cannot be awake without being aware

people need to be reminded as much as they need to be informed.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

Having formed a hypothesis that something is true about the world, we are more apt to note and file away evidence that helps to confirm that while passing over the evidence around us that would suggest otherwise.

Susan was at a party with her husband, and she was feeling very jealous because he was showing a great deal of attention to another woman there. Susan's strong spiritual training, however, had taught her that feelings such as anger and. jealousy can and should be transmuted. She had learned how to do this by meditating, so she meditated until she felt detached from the situation. Soon, she was no longer feeling jealousy; she was feeling love.

There are people passing by in their cars unaware and unassuming but I'm praying they'll look over and watch me worship you.

A beautiful woman is a car crash

The studios seem to think people go to the cinema to listen. They don't. They go to watch.

The ultimate trauma of heedlessness, then, is not seeing reality as it truly is. It is choosing a way of living that allows divine signs to be left unnoticed.

When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

My wiedzieli?my, ?e trzeba umiera? publicznie, na oczach ?wiata.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.