These attention quotes will inspire you. Attention notice is taken of someone or something; the regarding of someone or something as interesting or important or the action of dealing with or taking special care of someone or something.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging attention quotes, attention sayings, and attention proverbs.
Famous Attention Quotes
- “One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” ~ Simone Weil
- “The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” ~ Henry Miller
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“Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.” ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.” ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
- “Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.” ~ Keri Hilson
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“The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.” ~ Robert J. Shiller
- “No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?” ~ Lee Iacocca , Attention quotes love
- “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
- “When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” ~ George Washington Carver
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“The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll
- “This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.” ~ Mary Oliver
- “All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention” ~ Richard Moss
- “Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.” ~ Epictetus
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” ~ Mary Oliver
- “I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.” ~ Diane Sawyer
- “In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.” ~ Virginia Woolf
- “Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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“The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.” ~ Simone Weil
- “Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you’ll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.” ~ Brenda Shoshanna
- “Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don’t want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.” ~ Michael Beckwith
- “Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don’t want” ~ Rhonda Byrne
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“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgments simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.” ~ Edward de Bono
- “Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
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“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” ~ James Cook
- “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
- “We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
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“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- “Most people don’t know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else’s Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
- “The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.” ~ Rick Warren
- “Most people don’t know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
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“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” ~ Keanu Reeves
- “Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.” ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
- “Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.” ~ Saint Augustine
- “I’m not a very gregarious person. I can’t bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.” ~ Gabriel Byrne
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“It’s beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “Payless attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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“Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.” ~ Nadia Boulanger
- “Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
- “Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.” ~ James Arthur Ray
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“Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
- “The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
- “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” ~ Tom Peters
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“If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.” ~ Tom Peters
- “Pay attention. Don’t just stagger through the day.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci , Divided attention quotes
- “Zen pretty much comes down to three things — everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.” ~ Jane Hirshfield
- “A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
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“I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.” ~ Eminem
- “Some entertainers don’t pay attention to what’s going on around them.” ~ Louis C. K.
- “Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.” ~ Robert Teeter
- “Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.” ~ Richard Cecil
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“I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.” ~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- “Don’t listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Attention is the act or power of carefully thinking about, listening to, or watching someone or something.
