Quotes about Attention

Where the mind goes the person follows, so be sure that your thoughts are on what you want rather than what you don't want.

One of the best ways to be patient is to keep your mind focused on what you are currently doing.

Keep your foot [give your mind to what you are doing]. Ecclesiastes 5:1

we would get still long enough to let that wisdom rise and minister to our minds, we wouldn't do so many foolish things. Too many times, we react through our emotions and we don't pay any attention to the wisdom in our hearts.

Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

Because it is address, attending always on the response of the addressed, infinite speech has the form of listening. Infinite speech does not end in the obedient silence of the hearer, but continues by way of the attentive silence of the speaker. It is not a silence into which speech has died, but a silence from which speech is born.

I could not attempt to 'kindle the younger generation with the Gospel,' the most I could do would be to suggest to them that the Christian Faith is a logical explanation of the Universe well worth their attention, and neither an irrational myth nor a system of ethics which will stand by itself when the dogmatic foundation has been removed from beneath it.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

I hate red-carpet photographs!

I know what it's like to have a No. 1 pick and having everybody picking at him all of the time.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting