Quotes about Attention
Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty.
— Epictetus
If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
— Stephen Covey
The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.
— Duke Ellington
Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.
— Paulo Coelho
I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.
— Barack Obama
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.
— Bruce Lee
Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
— Will Rogers
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
— William Law
Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.
— Charles Stanley
There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
— Bill Hybels