Quotes about Attention

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

The true art of memory, is the art of attention

It was in olden times truly observed by Cato, that there is great concern about the appearance of the body but great carelessness about virtue. There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

For though our eyes, in what direction soever they turn, are forced to behold the works of God, we see how fleeting our attention is, and holy quickly pious thoughts, if any arise, vanish away.

And we must so discuss them as to bear in mind that this is the main hinge on which religion turns, so that we devote the greater attention and care to it. For unless you first of all grasp what your relationship to God is, and the nature of his judgment concerning you, you have neither a foundation on which to establish your salvation nor one on which to build piety toward God. But the need to know this will better appear from the knowledge itself.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.

When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them.