Attention Quotes - Page 12

If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.

There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.

People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership.

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.

The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.