Close Attention Quotes

52 quotes by 50 authors

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
You know, if you didn't pay close attention, you'd think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting the terrorists. — Johnny Isakson
It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. — J. Willard Marriott
The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to… — Jack Kornfield
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man — Brendan Fraser
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and… — David Trimble
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
For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace from that which… — Gautama Buddha
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to… — Peter Senge
If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment. — Paulo Coelho
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it. — Cheri Huber
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and… — Julia Alvarez
Pay close attention to any flame of enthusiasm. — Gretchen Rubin
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations. — Stanley Schmidt
Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury. — Derek Sivers
To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree,… — Alan Lee
Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you. — Austin Kleon
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. — Byron Katie
Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance. — Robert Cheeke

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