Our Attention Quotes
204 quotes by 162 authors
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
— William Throsby Bridges
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good,…
— Richard Cecil
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Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities.…
— Marina Abramovic
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To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing…
— Mark Nepo
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Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature…
— Paul Brunton
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Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to…
— John Green
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During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved…
— Ching Hai
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The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions: Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through…
— Alexey Brodovitch
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Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.
— Max Lucado
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I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything…
— Tim Winton
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The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't,…
— Cynthia Heimel
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It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A design is intuitive when people just know what to do and they don’t have to go through any training to get there When a…
— Jared Spool
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Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention…
— Connie Chung
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It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy…
— George W. Bush
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.…
— Alison Lurie
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It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]…
— Michael Moorcock
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Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final…
— Ernest Holmes
Who Wrote These Our Attention Quotes
162 authors contributed a total of 204 Our Attention Quotes, led by these top contributors: