Quotes About Attention

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

If practiced intentionally and purposefully meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, to develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process.

Telling you and putting it on the front pages of the newspapers is just about the same thing!

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

Never Walk Past a Mistake

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

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The story of the Gorman ranch had hit the newspapers and it ricocheted around the country. It wasn't long before it caught the attention of one of the most powerful businessmen in North America and his organization, the National Institute for Discovery Science.

We built a world so noisy that we've begun to miss true magnificence.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

A single words are cruel burden to man if he doesn't learn not to pay attention on them.

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

O problema do prazer estético é sempre, antes de mais nada, um problema de atenção, e um mundo de prazeres é uma promessa que se realiza só para quem sabe prestar atenção.

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it. ("New York Blues")

She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.

Drop your lower jaw!" Mr. Moorman called down the long room. "Keep your mouth open and it will save your eardrums.

If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.

Time shrinks when it's not paid attention to.

It is good to be connected to family and friends, but when we cannot resist the urge to check updates or upload a photo, we are veering toward idolatry. Idols serve our needs according to our schedule. When we call, they answer. They give us a false sense of being in control. But over time, the relationship reverses. We end up attending to their needs, centering our lives on their priorities and agendas.

I sometimes wonder if fear isn't just God's way of saying, 'Pay attention, this could be fun.

The world of the Bible is our world, and its story of redemption is also our story. This story is waiting for an ending—in part because we ourselves have a role to play before all is concluded. We must therefore pay attention to the continuing biblical story of redemption.

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.