Attention Quotes - Page 28

• In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Evil, Might

  "The Rambler".

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• War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Religion, Fixed

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Atheist, Giving, Religion

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• ... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Gratitude, Truth

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.80, Souvenir Press

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• I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Accomplish Your Goals, Accomplishment

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.166, Pelican Publishing

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• Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Business, Simple

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• Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

  Gary Zukav

  Self Esteem, Loving Life, Scarcity

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2007). “The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Ballet, Progress

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• A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.

  Yamini Krishnamurthy

  Dance, People, Ballet

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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 for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Understanding, Awakening, Hiv

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 7, p. 165, 1955 - 1975.

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• The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied by worries, we have that must less attention to expend on figuring out the answers. Our worries become self-fulfilling prophecies, propelling us toward the very disaster they predict.

  Daniel Goleman

  Self, Worry, Tasks

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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 is. We draw closer to Jesus... When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King.

  Mark Zimmermann

  Christmas, Wise, Jesus

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• Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to the total situation as is necessary to enable them to act rationally, but impulsively do the first thing that comes into their heads which is usually determined by what others are doing at the same time.

  James A.C. Brown

  Tunnels, People, Worry

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• The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent. Your attention becomes innocent.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Mistake

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• The attention is to be kept pure.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Now when you meditate, try to meditate in a sustained way, first of all sustain it. Then you find that you are getting into the state of Samadhi, means at a state where you start feeling the joy and the bliss of God's blessings, and then you start saying "O God, what a blessing, what a blessing, and what a blessing". Once you have reached that state then you have to realize "Who am I". Who are you? What are you? You are the Spirit. After establishing your sustained attention on the Spirit you'll develop a state where you'll be in a complete state of witnessing with joy.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• If you want to be positive, it is very easy and for that you should see where is your attention. Are you only seeing problems or are you seeing some fun in it?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Fun

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• Now, you just watch your attention. Where is it going? Watch yourself. As soon as you'll start watching yourself, your attention, you'll become more identified with your Spirit.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• What is yoga ? In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit. This is yoga. What does the kundalini do ? She raises your attention and takes it to the Spirit. Only after knowing the Spirit you can know God.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about it, doing anything about it, it's absolutely useless. You have to be really born again. It's an actualization, which should take place.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The light of the spirit has to come into your attention.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• One has to understand that we have to become a higher personality which is the spirit, which is the truth, which is the enlightened attention, and which is the joy.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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