Attention Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Pay, Bears, Ridiculous

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• Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.

  Trent Shelton

  Jealousy, Fake Friends, Fake People

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013

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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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• There are three foundational issues or three divisions that I should say that Sharia fits into, one is penal law of course and that is what gets all the attention, there's two countries in the world right now that actually have a Federal mandate to enact penal law according to the Sharia, that's Saudi Arabia, and Iran.

  Mark Durie

  Country, Iran, Law

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• People dont pay attention until they have to

  Meredith Whitney

  People, Pay, Pay Attention

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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 average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

  Meg Rosoff

  Average, Long, Trying

  "Selling yourself as a writer" by Meg Rosoff, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2007.

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• We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

  William Martin

  Meditation, Trying, Wake Up

  William Martin (2009). “A Path and a Practice: Using Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as a Guide to an Awakened Spiritual Life”, p.21, Da Capo Press

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• Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.

  Arielle Ford

  Quality, Sun, Grows

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• Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Demand, Care

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.159, Penguin

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• she’s not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her is like waking up.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Strong, Eye

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Finn, do you see the lias—whatever, the orange-haired girl?” Razo Gestured ahead. “Do you think she’s pretty?” Finn glanced Dasha’s way, then returned his attention ot his horse. “She’s all right.” “Really? Just all right?” Finn shrugged. Razo rolled his eyes. “What am I saying? He doesn’t think any girl is pretty but Enna.” “Are there any girls but Enna?” Finn called back. “There’d better be.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Horse, Eye

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• In the family of punctuation, where the full stop is daddy and the comma is mummy, and the semicolon quietly practises the piano with crossed hands, the exclamation mark is the big attention-deficit brother who gets overexcited and breaks things and laughs too loudly.

  Lynne Truss

  Brother, Hands, Exclamation Marks

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• 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.

  Tammara Webber

  Path, I've Changed, Made

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• ... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Space, People, Together

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• There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

  Linda Hogan

  Patience, Nature, Garden

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• I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

  Jojo Moyes

  Two, Focus, Nerves

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• I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Trying, Bash

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• I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Real, Blessed, Eye

  "More Than a Savior: When Jesus Calls You Friend". Book by Robert Crosby, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Wisdom, Greatness

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

  Rachel Cohn

  Guy, Doe, Too Much

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.43, Egmont UK

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