2,786 Quotes About Attention

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Don't get so lost in their words. Pay attention to their actions

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures.

I'll date you, love...not you and your iPad. I can't feel plastic palm play; I'm live like Memorex.

Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.

If we elicit the scorn of men by being on our knees, it may do us well to remember that we have garnered the attention of God. And in the scope of things, that’s a trade-off that’s hardly a trade that’s off.

Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94.

... the language we use is insightful. When we say we are paying attention to something, we are recognizing that attention comes at a cost.