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Attention Quotes by Anne Lamott
- There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence…
- Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a…
- My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive…
- I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at…
- Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
- These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
- Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have…
- There is ecstasy in paying attention.
- Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to…
- Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little…
More Attention Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or… — Saint Augustine
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If… — Lauren Bacall
- A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a… — Michele Bachmann
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams
- I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are… — Amy Adams
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and… — James A. Baldwin
- A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn.… — Christian Bale