Attention Quotes

• One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 15, 2017

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• Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

  Simone Weil

  Kindness, Caring, Generosity

  Letter to Joë Bousquet on April 13, 1942. "Correspondance", published by Editions l'Age d'Homme in Lausanne, p. 18, 1982.

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• The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

  Henry Miller

  Motivational, Beauty, Gratitude

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• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Life, Inspire, Stronger

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• Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Gratitude, Pay, Awareness

  "Man and Crisis". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 94, 1962.

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• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Spiritual, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2016

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• People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.

  Keri Hilson

  Attitude, People, Perception

  FaceBook post by Keri Hilson from Sep 28, 2010

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• The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Inspirational, Focus, Intelligence

  Robert J. Shiller (2015). “Irrational Exuberance”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

  Lee Iacocca

  Love, Family, Wise

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Love, Inspirational, Powerful

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Differences, Details, Attention To Detail

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.323, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Firsts, Built

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• All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lessons, Pay, Ready

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 26, 2016

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• The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

  Richard Moss

  Educational, Communication, Wrestling

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  Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

  Epictetus

  Life, Jealousy, Envy

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

  Mary Oliver

  Work, Positivity, Pay

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

  Diane Sawyer

  Thinking, Listening, Literature

  Attributed in "Do: Meditations for Brides" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 9), 1993.

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• In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Memories, Giving

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• The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

  Simone Weil

  Awareness, Ecstasy, Highest

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.515, Routledge

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• Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Work, Hands

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.63, Penguin

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• Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Honesty, Writing, Simple

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• Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Emotional, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 18, 2012

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• Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Wish, Want

  "The Secret". Book by Rhonda Byrne, September 4, 2008.

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• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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