Attention Quotes

• Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Gratitude, Pay, Awareness

  "Man and Crisis". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 94, 1962.

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• I think that I always loved being the centre of attention!

  Katherine Heigl

  Thinking, Centre, Center Of Attention

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• The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Bites, Knows, One Thing

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• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Envy, Paranoid

  1992 In Time Out,19 Aug.

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• The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

  Henry Miller

  Motivational, Beauty, Gratitude

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• One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 15, 2017

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• Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Life, Inspire, Stronger

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• People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.

  Keri Hilson

  Attitude, People, Perception

  FaceBook post by Keri Hilson from Sep 28, 2010

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• The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Inspirational, Focus, Intelligence

  Robert J. Shiller (2015). “Irrational Exuberance”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Spiritual, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2016

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• Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

  Antisthenes

  Business, Powerful, Mistake

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 12)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Heart, Personality

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• You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Support You, Age, Assured

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• The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Educational, Eye, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1855). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His Miscellaneous Essays”, p.332

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• Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

  Albert Einstein

  Fear, Deeds

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

  Simone Weil

  Kindness, Caring, Generosity

  Letter to Joë Bousquet on April 13, 1942. "Correspondance", published by Editions l'Age d'Homme in Lausanne, p. 18, 1982.

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• No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

  Lee Iacocca

  Love, Family, Wise

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  Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

  Epictetus

  Life, Jealousy, Envy

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Love, Inspirational, Powerful

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Differences, Details, Attention To Detail

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.323, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

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• Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

  Mooji

  Self, Pay, Introducing

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• When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lessons, Pay, Ready

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 26, 2016

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• This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Firsts, Built

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