Best Our Attention Quotes
204 Our Attention quotes by 158 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What we give our attention to, grows.
— Ken Blanchard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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