Quotes About Attention

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.

Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear.

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see

Somewhere within you is a huge supply of happiness, always there, patiently waiting for you to reach out and grab it. It's yours for the asking. And you ask by giving it your attention.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides.

I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.

Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

If you make time for the nonsense, good or bad, it will continue to seek you out.

Our ultimate goal is to be fully present for life. It takes practice

One of the greatest help you can give to yourself is to kill distraction

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

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.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.