Explore Quotes on Attention

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay...now be Samurai.

We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.

When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.

Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Attention is a precious commodity.

There is nothing else for you to do but to truly love and nourish the emotionally and spiritually starved parts of you that are crying out for your attention. Are you loving all of yourself?

The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

Problems can only exist if they have your attention.

The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us through the poor. The most remarkable experience of those who work with the poor is that, in the end, the poor give more than they receive. They give food to us.

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.