A Quotes
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“Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.”
“Attention is a precious commodity.”
Source: Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web
“Attention is a resource as abundant as sunlight. It streams outward all day long whether we choose to tap into it or not. By developing conscious focus of our attention, we learn to harness one of the greatest creative powers available to humankind, one that happens to be freely available within ourselves at all times.”
“Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.”
“Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.”
“Attention is crucial to the success of self-regulation, and indeed attentional processes often constitute the first step toward either success or failure at self-regulation. As mentioned, reduced self-monitoring is often a precipitating factor in self-regulation failure because it is quite easy to lose track of one’s status or quit regulating oneself when one cannot evaluate the distance between the current state and the goal state ... When people cease to attend to their own behavior, self-regulation typically deteriorates.”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.”
“Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.”
“Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.”
Source: The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme
“Attention is not intention.”
Source: Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily
“Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human beings have a vital need for time and inner quiet to ponder and examine life and its mysteries... Understanding and wisdom are the fruit of a contemplative eye upon the world, and do not come from a mere accumulation of facts, no matter how interesting.”
“Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.”
“Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.”
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
Source: Upstream: Selected Essays
“Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.”
Source: The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire
“Attention is the currency of leadership.”
Source: Leadership Without Easy Answers
“Attention is the currency of power, where you spend it determines what you own.”
“attention is the first and final act act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.”
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.”
“Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.”
“Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.”
“Attention is the material I work with.”
“Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.”
“Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.”
“Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.”
“Attention is the opium of the people”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -Simone Weil”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.”
“Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.”
“Attention is the yin to concentration’s yang. Attention (mindfulness) and concentration (focus) work together to provide a full, rounded experience of being both focused on the task at hand (whatever it may be), as well as having a complete awareness of, and an open mind to, the many aspects of the moment you are in.”
Source: Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
“Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire.”
“Attention is what harnesses the primal creative power of our thoughts, emotions and beliefs (which, to oversimplify, combine to form our imagination) in such a way as to build tulpas and egregores, to make dreams come true, and even to create brave new worlds and realities.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“Attention is your brand’s most valuable asset. In a world where people’s attention is in short supply, with so many distractions per second, your brand must be a disruptor.”
“Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.”
“Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved.”
“Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.”
“Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.”
“Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.”
“Attention received after pleading is called pity.”
“Attention seekers are immature.”
“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”
Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed
“Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.”
“Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.”
“Attention spans are shrinking on a daily basis, and it's getting harder to make an impression that lasts. So the fact that we were able to make a mark in a way that led to the continued relevance of the record is kind of crazy. I'm in awe of that.”
“Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.”