Attention Quotes

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." "Each person allocates his or her limited attention either by focusing it intentionally like a beam of energy or by diffusing it in desultory random movements " "Wealth does not count, attention counts" "The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes" "We can only have a coherent conception of reality—our conscious experience of it, that is—if we pay attention to its contents one by one, moment by moment" "Mindfulness is awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally." "You cannot transform yourself when your attention is on someone else’s transformation." "I want you to understand that deeper dimensions of life don't open up because you philosophize, they open up because you pay attention." "Listen deep enough, you always hear something" "People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." "Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost" "If not given appropriate attention, truth will always perish" "I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention" "A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain." "When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen"