Attention Quotes

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters

~ Amit Ray

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Toba Beta

To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention. Admittedly, the whole thing’s pretty confusing, and hard to talk about abstractly…but surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places any more but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets’ checkouts, airport gates, SUVs’ backseats. Walkman, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can’t think anyone really believes that today’s so-called ‘information society’ is just about information. Everyone knows it’s about something else, way down.

~ David Foster Wallace

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

~ Mary Oliver

When you start giving, instead of getting, you make a difference. You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe… your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

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

~ Zig Ziglar

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

~ G.k. Chesterton

People are fighting so hard for attention and recognition, rather than fighting for their goals and dreams. They get attention they ask for, but their dreams are not known nor lived.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

Never justify someones wrong action, without them apologizing first & admitting their wrongs. If you do. You are not making them better, but you are making them worse on the bad things they do.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate , bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.

~ De Philosopher Dj Kyos

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

~ Toba Beta

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 being truthful.

~ Rachel Cohn

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14)

~ Jean-Yves Leloup

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity, our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

When you start giving, instead of getting, you make a difference… You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe… your concern, your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.

~ Roy Bennett

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

~ Mary Oliver

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

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Pay attention to your goals and never let the euphoria of the early success convince you to brag about.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Bell Hooks

Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Don’t beg for attention, pay attention to your dreams and others will pay attention to you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

~ Amit Kalantri

We are all gardeners, planting seeds of intention and watering them with attention in every moment of every day.

~ Cristen Rodgers

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

~ Julio Cortázar

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)

~ Thomas Newkirk

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.

~ Susan Sontag

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

~ Doug Dillon

The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered over layers, the eerie mix of sounds and smells and glimpses neither natural nor crafted- all of it is free for the taking, for the taking in. Take it, take it in, take in more every weekend, every day, and quickly it becomes the theater that intrigues, relaxes, fascinates, seduces, and above all expands any mind focused on it. Outside lies utterly ordinary space open to any casual explorer willing to find the extraordinary. Outside lies unprogrammed awareness that at times becomes directed serendipity. Outside lies magic.

~ John R. Stilgoe

You can’t inspire and lead people without earning their attention. You achieve that in a counter-intuitive way – by paying close attention to what interests them.

~ Phil Dourado

Everything that you wish to know, or desire for life, exists in you. All you have to do is take your attention inward and begin your search within.

~ Roshan Sharma

Success, Bill Gates said, is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.Same goes for good looking people. Beauty reduces the consciousness that it takes more to catch the heart of the right partner.We often think being good at one thing is all we need to succeed, but hey, success is less of what you are good at, but more of what you are good for.Of what use is beauty with no brains, culture without character, knowledge that does not impact, or skill that does not add value?For any seemingly good thing to last, great attention we must pay to the unseen intrinsic component that sustains it.

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.

~ Rodolfo Costa

Achievement is no hocus-pocus. It's focus, focus!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument

~ Andrew Pettegree