Quotes about Attention

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

He throws out radiance, it must be reflected sun. Why isn't everyone staring?

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

It's literature. It's all books. There are good books and bad books. Literary fiction can be bad, and so can sci-fi. Sci-fi can be wonderful and so can literary fiction. As long as it's a good book, who cares? Hold my attention; that's all I ask. Make me believe.

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.