Attention Quotes - Page 23

• Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

  Confucius

  Essence, Mind, Ears

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• That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

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• Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Marriage, Passion

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• Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Success, Stress

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• The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Inspiration, Middle School

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• Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Believe, Passion

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Two, Piano, Space

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.7, New World Library

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• 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.

  David Hume

  Art, Honesty, Science

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• To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

  W. H. Auden

  Pay, Praying, Oneself

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• People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Numbers, People, Pay

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• One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Success, Men, Calling

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• I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Views, Infinite

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Children, Middle Child

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• Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Science, Chemistry, Newton

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• Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

  William Cobbett

  Science, Progress, Genius

  William Cobbett (2012). “Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.”, p.62, tredition

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• There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be well received in female assemblies, must qualify himself by a total rejection of all that is serious, rational, or important; must consider argument or criticism as perpetually interdicted; and devote all his attention to trifles, and all his eloquence to compliment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Men, Rejection

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.297

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• Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to versemaking, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject.

  Charles Darwin

  Teaching, Mean, School

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.25, VM eBooks

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• It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Mistake, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Perseverance, Rain, Shining

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

  Don Mattingly

  Writing, Media, Clubs

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• Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Jobs, Mean, Demand

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• The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wise, Country

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “The Portable Benjamin Franklin”, p.190, Penguin

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• Is it like a Harry Potter thing?" He turned his head then. "A what?" "A Harry Potter thing," she said again. "You know, don't say Voldemort's name because you might attract his attention?" He considered it. "You mean the children's book." "I have got to get you to watch more movies," she said. "You'd enjoy these. Yes, I mean the children's book.

  Patricia Briggs

  Children, Book, Mean

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• Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Circles, Religion, Earth

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• I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape, moved on to landscapes with and without other people, and then onto buildings, still lives, portraits, and body parts in rooms. If certain aspects of my production are getting more attention right now I think it is directly linked to a general absence of dreamed bodies in contemporary art. Viewers who mainly follow fashion have most likely not noticed this lack.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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