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Attention Quotes by Simone Weil
- The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.…
- The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.
- In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps)…
- In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
- A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous…
- Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
- The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
- Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs…
- Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them…
- Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
- Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
- If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at…
More Attention Quotes
- 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
- 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
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- 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
- 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