Attention Quotes - Page 3

• The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Reality, Focus, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2017

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• The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

  Richard Moss

  Educational, Communication, Wrestling

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  Dalai Lama

  Education, Buddhist, Views

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• Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

  Jim Rohn

  Pay, Pay Attention

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2017

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• Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Life, Time, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Pain, Growth

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• The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

  Alan Watts

  Focus, Ego, Conscious

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.21, Sounds True

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• Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Wise, Pay, Mathematics

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.142

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• Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

  Robert G. Allen

  Leadership, Dream, Crazy

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Enemy, Stronger

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 03, 2010

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• The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

  David O. Selznick

  Details, Paid, Depends

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• What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

  Richard P. Bland

  Country, Silver, Unlimited

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• That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

  James Taylor

  Motivational, Art, Architecture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Church Service, Perfect, Would Be

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  Earl Scruggs

  Giving, Tunes, Littles

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• Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

  James Arthur Ray

  Focus And Concentration, Intention, Units

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• If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Children, Parenting

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• Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Humor, Economy, Persuasive

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• Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of what acting is paying attention.

  Nancy Reagan

  Theatre, Acting, Pay Attention

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• I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

  Warren Zevon

  Mean, Hollies, Berries

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• Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Appreciate, Promise, Curiosity

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• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

  Dale Carnegie

  Taught, Failing, Public Speaking

  Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

  William James

  Science, Mind, Progress

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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