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Attention Quote by Bob Goff

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“God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.”

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I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.

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If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.

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“As I sit on my island, it becomes clears that we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on…

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“You become like the people you hang around, and to a great degree, you end up going wherever they’re headed.”

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The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.

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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

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Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.

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I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.

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Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.

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It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always…

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People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very…

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Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands…

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By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau

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What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.…

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For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention…

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When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave…

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I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

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I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and…

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The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...…

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Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will…

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