Attention Quotes

4929 Attention quotes by 3118 unique authors

When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing. — Lee Haney
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the… — Aaron Copland
The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He… — William James
Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand. — Abraham Maslow
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free. — Michelangelo
God dwells in the details. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note. — Igor Stravinsky
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to… — Oscar Wilde
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards. — Annie Proulx
I'm the wife Spike Lee deserves. A white woman, which he says he would never be with, so let's get someone really white. I am… — Carrie Fisher
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you… — Elbert Hubbard
Mindfulness - moment to moment non-judgemental attention and awareness. — Richard Davidson
To think and to be fully alive are the same. — Hannah Arendt
I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is… — Spike Milligan
Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both. — Jim Rohn
When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed… — Quentin Bryce
Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the… — John Roberts
The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you. — Paulo Coelho
Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention. — Auguste Escoffier
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying… — Emily Dickinson
The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles… — David Foster Wallace
But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type… — David Foster Wallace
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get… — David Foster Wallace
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school… — Eric Allin Cornell

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