Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention! — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value. — Peter Bart Copy Share Image
At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how & what you think. It means being conscious… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
I may be a sleeping politician. But one should know that a sleeping politician is always awake about national politics. I am… — H. D. Deve Gowda Copy Share Image
“The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
“[P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Isn't that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?” — Kathleen Jamie Copy Share Image
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“It is extremely difficult to stay alert & attentive instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monolog inside your head.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“When the shimmer of the past is melting into the presence, spreading a scent of attentiveness and inquiringness, our mind may ask… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Infrared satellite imagery, optical telescopes, and the Hubbell space telescope bring vastness within our visual sphere. Electron microscopes let us wander the… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
“Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
