Best ability & attention Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.”

Kind Ability Attention Influence Special Events Authority Presidential Obsessed Significance Pardon Perks Pardon Me

Author:Barbara Olson

“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.”

Mind States Winning Ability Attention Health Buddhism Direct Dependent Concentration State Of Mind Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.”

Ifs Use Ability Attention Stones Hood Stepping Stones Flashy

Author:Richard Widmark

“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.”

Mind Ability Attention Buddhism Mindfulness Direct

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?”

World Want Looks Whole Use Artist Ability Attention Whole World Recognition

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent.”

Women Sides Ability Attention Enlightenment Ill Manipulate Occult

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.”

Ability Levels Attention Power Translate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].”

Ability Attention Brain Tasks Praise Concentration Maps Lasting Divided Divides Lasting Change

Author:Norman Doidge

“If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.”

Ifs Looks Happens Memories Ability Attention Pay Attention Repetition Our Memories Redundancy

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.”

Kids Girl Sports Ability Pay Attention Notes Average Worthy Pay Attention Standing Out

Author:Jeff Dunham

“Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.”

Humans Littles Past Goal Human Beings Ability Attention Future Mindfulness Concentration Orientation

Author:Ian Gawler

“While it does, and should, feel good to be appreciated by another person, if you are dependent upon their appreciation to feel good, you will not be able to consistently feel good, because no other person has the ability, or a responsibility, to hold you as their singular, positive object of attention. Your Inner Being, however, the Source within you, always holds you, with no exceptions, as a constant object of appreciation. So if you will tune your thoughts and actions to that consistent Vibration of Well-Being flowing forth from your Inner Being-you will thrive under any and all conditions.”

Source: The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships

“I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.”

Way Trying Stories Dream Ability Attention Brain Models

Author:Amy Hardie

“The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.”

Ifs Way Done Hands Life Is Dies Loses Ability Pay Attention Military Taught Tasks Importance Accomplish Missions Pay Attention Timely Completing Lieutenants Timelines Task At Hand

Author:Don Young

“It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.”

Heart Self Ability Attention Focus Healthy Approach Being Me

Author:Nick Baylis

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