Best Our Attention Thoughts
204 Our Attention quotes by 158 unique authors
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What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
— Nhat Hanh
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The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
— Sharon Salzberg
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The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Indeed we have great reason to rejoice. If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites…
— Bob Goff
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The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.
— C.S. Lewis
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We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.
— David Eagleman
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We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the…
— Jack Gilbert
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have…
— Tim Minchin
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We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential,…
— Christopher Reeve
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One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention…
— Luciano Pavarotti
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No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate…
— Joseph Paxton
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We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be…
— Ninette de Valois
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Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not…
— Johann Georg Hamann
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That which holds our attention determines our action.
— Prince William
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This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God…
— Unknown Author
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The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact…
— Lyall Watson
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Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused…
— David Perlmutter
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Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of…
— Joseph Prince
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There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
— Bernard Beckett
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There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
— S. Truett Cathy
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