Quotes about Attention
When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.
- Billy Graham
Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.
- Billy Graham
Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God—on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion.
- Billy Graham
What we are looking for is what is looking.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Just as the sun shines on all the trees and flowers as if each were the only one on earth, so does God care for all souls in a special manner.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
- Dale Carnegie
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
- GK Chesterton
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.
- Charles Stanley
Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.
- Michelle Obama
In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.
- Herman Melville
Everyone knows—that if you blow the opener, nobody remembers anything else.
- Bill Clinton