Quotes About Attention

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

There's nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't pay attention to the day-to-day details.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.

Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

When I'm shouting at the defence, subtitles come up in front of the goal.

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!