Best Our Attention Quotations
204 Our Attention quotes by 158 unique authors
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Let's assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism...When we shift our attention from 'save newspapers' to 'save society,' the imperative changes from 'preserve the…
— Clay Shirky
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The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to…
— Henri Nouwen
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As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is…
— C.S. Lewis
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All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.
— C. J. Mahaney
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Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but…
— Mohsin Hamid
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To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.
— Michelle Cruz
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By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and…
— Janet Poppendieck
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A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely,…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and…
— Jacques Barzun
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Hatha yoga is a powerful tool for self-transformation. It asks us to bring our attention to our breath, which helps us to still the fluctuations…
— Cyndi Lee
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God plays a lot of jokes on us to get our attention.
— Garrison Keillor
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There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
— Jay McInerney
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Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not…
— Henri Nouwen
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The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be…
— Frederick Lenz
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We live inside too much. We live inside and we have square thoughts and square ideas because we live in square houses. Our lives are…
— Frederick Lenz
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For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to…
— Frederick Lenz
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Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity,…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
— Ignatius Loyola
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I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our…
— Dan Chaon
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Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on…
— Nicholas Hoult
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The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
— Mary Oliver
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There is no such thing as a boring person: everyone has stories and insights worth sharing. While on the road, we let our phones or…
— Richard Branson
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