Quotes about Attention

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

Because it is address, attending always on the response of the addressed, infinite speech has the form of listening. Infinite speech does not end in the obedient silence of the hearer, but continues by way of the attentive silence of the speaker. It is not a silence into which speech has died, but a silence from which speech is born.

I could not attempt to 'kindle the younger generation with the Gospel,' the most I could do would be to suggest to them that the Christian Faith is a logical explanation of the Universe well worth their attention, and neither an irrational myth nor a system of ethics which will stand by itself when the dogmatic foundation has been removed from beneath it.

Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most

I hate red-carpet photographs!

I know what it's like to have a No. 1 pick and having everybody picking at him all of the time.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

Where focus goes, energy flows.