Quotes about Attention

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

Yelling is a form of publishing.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

If humility were not self-forgetfulness, any virtuous person would have the practical dilemma of either directing his attention to his own virtue, which naturally leads to pride, or denying it, which would be a lie.

Overcomers concentrate on details that go unnoticed by others. They do what needs to be done, even when no one is watching.

Amid the thousands of shrill voices screaming for our attention, there is but on Voice we need to hear. The voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

If the audience gets to see anything in abundance, they lose interest.

The Third Method of Prayer is that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally, saying one word of the Our Father, or of another prayer which is being recited: so that only one word be said between one breath and another, and while the time from one breath to another lasts, let attention be given chiefly to the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such great height to his own so great lowness.