Best Our Attention Sayings
204 Our Attention quotes by 158 unique authors
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I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we…
— Victoria Moran
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The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may…
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
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So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.
— Lee H. Hamilton
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The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
— Dillon Burroughs
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The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them…
— David Abram
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God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.
— Bob Goff
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We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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We lose our time because we lose our attention
— Jacob Needleman
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If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.
— Jack Hyles
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"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is…
— Alan Watts
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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer…
— Gilbert Sorrentino
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In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.
— Eli Pariser
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
— Joseph Addison
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A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes…
— Diane Dreher
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We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lord’s hands here upon…
— Thomas S. Monson
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When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many…
— Mary Oliver
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We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay…
— Charles Simic
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I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements…
— Margaret Chan
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Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are…
— Margaret Mead
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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A…
— William Graham Sumner
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
— Brennan Manning
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