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We're living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads… — Pete Cashmore
By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect… — Robert Cialdini
Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoon, and this is the moment when it would most require our attention, since its existence is still… — Italo Calvino
There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now… — Henri Bergson
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource. — Bell Hooks
I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
In nonviolent communication, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests. Then we… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus,… — Simon Baron-Cohen
Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom… — Rachel Naomi Remen
What we give our attention to, grows. — Ken Blanchard
Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic… — Marc Ian Barasch
The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy.… — Elisabeth Elliot
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening… — Sharon Salzberg
Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy.… — Marion D. Hanks
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention… — Epictetus
Gradually, physicists began to realise that nature, at the atomic level, does not appear as a mechanical universe composed of fundamental building blocks, but rather… — Fritjof Capra
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment… — Eckhart Tolle
Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires… — B.K.S. Iyengar
We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels… — Carl Safina
Amid the thousands of shrill voices screaming for our attention, there is but on Voice we need to hear. The voice of the Lord Jesus… — David Jeremiah
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality… — Roald Hoffmann
A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against… — Alfred Binet
Peace in its real sense can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes... It is high time for us to focus our attention… — Hans-Peter Durr

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