Quotes about Attention

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady on the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.

Payattention.  As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that.  And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too.

So generally—and this is not a complicated point, God knows—the arts frame our life for us so that we will experience it. Pay attention to it.

It seems to me almost before the Bible says anything else, it is saying that—how important it is to be alive and to pay attention to being alive, pay attention to each other, pay attention to God as he moves and as he speaks. Pay attention to where life or God has tried to take you.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Does the emerald lose its beauty for lack of admiration?

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

He throws out radiance, it must be reflected sun. Why isn't everyone staring?

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.