Quotes about Attention
It's literature. It's all books. There are good books and bad books. Literary fiction can be bad, and so can sci-fi. Sci-fi can be wonderful and so can literary fiction. As long as it's a good book, who cares? Hold my attention; that's all I ask. Make me believe.
— Margaret Atwood
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.
— Anne Graham Lotz
Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.
— Jim Rohn
The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.
— Nicky Gumbel
It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.
— Carl Jung
How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?
— Randy Alcorn
Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.
— Robin Sharma
At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.
— Tony Robbins
First, there's the rose— the queen of the flowers; she's so beautiful and her fragrance is so intoxicating that it goes to everyone's head, most of all her own. The rose is beautiful, sweet-smelling and elegant, but if things aren't going her way, she shows her thorns. She's like a spoiled child—beautiful, elegant and seemingly nice as can be, but if you touch her or talk to someone else so that she's no longer the center of attention, out come her claws.
— Anne Frank
Really, it's not easy being the badly brought-up center of attention of a family of nitpickers.
— Anne Frank
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?
— Anne Lamott
I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.
— Anne Lamott