“At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.” ChildrenHomeLostAwarenessSourceCapacityShakesApathyExhilarationAttentiveness Author:John W. Gardner
“Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.” GivingKindFormWealthLevelsAttitudeAdviceHonestParticularMaterialsNeededComfortBehaviorPraiseDuesGenerosityGoodsBe KindOfferingCaring For OthersDo Unto OthersComforterMaterial WealthAttentivenessMateriality Author:Dalai Lama
“Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!” HeartSongPayAttentionBibleScripturePay AttentionAttentiveness Author:Matt Redman
“I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.” ThinkingYearsFilmMotherThreeActorsTasksUltimateMovieThree YearsFilmmakingNobilityHensAttentivenessMartyred Author:Diane Lane
“My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.” KnowsWayFeelsWritingMaySoundMetaphorFishesMy WayHookBrushingAlertnessAttentiveness Author:Stephen Dobyns