2,786 Quotes About Attention

The mother of all the skills is to learn the art of paying attention—Remembering every step you make or anything that’s around you.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words--and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)

Composer found himself faced with a public whose attention had to be roused and captivated by more effective means than those to which the older public had responded. Simply because he was afraid of losing contact with his audience, he developed the musical composition into a series of constantly renewed impulsed, and worked it up from one expressive intensity to another.

How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

It's not a matter of whether you want happiness. We all need peace, love, and happiness. But, if you fail to nurture your spirit, by absorbing all things good and giving attention to the matters of your heart, it will be hard to obtain. It must radiate from inside of you. Then, flow outwardly penetrating everyone around you.

I must have been grown up. So I didn't notice.

Pay careful attention to those ideas that keep coming back to your mind. Ideas left lifeless are ghosts that don't just haunt you, they bite.