Attention Quotes

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world,
then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.

We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words-and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.

Imagination makes the world
and all the wonders in it.
The seed of every dream unfurls
as you with love begin it!

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

When you start listening to side talks, you begin to behave like a child, and you must kill the child to sustain the man, the man is always overlooking and philosophical.

Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is "to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word.
“What?” Lily asked.
“Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?”
“What?”
“Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.”
“Because they’re hot?”
“This,” I told her, “is not the time for be

The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.