“Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.” HumansSufferingHumanityIndividualHuman BeingsAttentionBuddhismHarmonyPlanesDharma Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.” IfsHumansHas BeensDifferentHuman BeingsAttentionBearsDegreesCorporateSurroundEntityArtifacts Author:William Gibson
“What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.” PeopleTryingHumansDoneHelpingSufferingCommunityHuman BeingsAttentionPovertyConflictDrawsOrdinaryRootsImpactInjusticeMissionsCoreGrassGood WorkOrdinary PeopleEldersBeing DoneTrying To ChangeAlleviate Author:Desmond Tutu
“Everything is amplified in the world of attention at night. People are more open to forces. That is why human beings cluster around each other in housing developments - a group force pervades and keeps the beings out.” PeopleWorldHumansNightForceHuman BeingsAttentionGroupsBuddhismDevelopmentHousingClusters Author:Frederick Lenz
“I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution.” HumansSelfGovernmentJobsHuman BeingsNumbersPayAttentionDutyConstitutionExperimentsAssPay AttentionWipeOathSelf-governmentCockroachesUs Constitution Author:Ted Nugent
“When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention.” PeopleWayHumansHuman BeingsPayAttentionDoorsPay AttentionPerceiveQuranFamous Book Author:Nouman Ali Khan
“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.” ShouldHumansCertainValuesInterestHuman BeingsResultsAttentionTeachingPossibilityObjectsTruth IsPureActivityGoodnessTrainingAdvantageShould HaveAimApplicationInstruction Book:Gravity and Grace Source: Gravity and Grace
“Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.” HumansMayRealPurposeTurnsHuman BeingsEffortAttentionTeachHonestMoralityDrawsBasesRealizationBeing HonestGeometryMagnificence Author:Madame de Stael
“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.” HumansLittlesPastGoalHuman BeingsAbilityAttentionFutureMindfulnessConcentrationOrientation Author:Ian Gawler
“The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.” TryingHumansLongHuman BeingsAttentionHalfModernAverageAttention Span Author:Meg Rosoff
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human beings are capable of; and not be corrupted - made cynical, superficial - by this understanding.” ThinkingWorldTryingHumansMeanMadeUnderstandingHuman BeingsPayAttentionCapablePay AttentionCynicalSuperficialWickedness Book:Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung
“'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.” HumansFacesHuman BeingsAttentionPlanetsDegreesDeserveFabulousForrest Gump Author:Tom Hanks
“Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.” HumansHuman BeingsAttentionMissionsStatementsMission Statement Author:Merlin Mann
“Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about.” IfsHumansPersonsEnoughAbleEnergyHuman BeingsAttentionFocusSkillsStressPatternsMedicalDominantIntuitiveContributing Author:Caroline Myss
“Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.” WorldNeedsHumansTwoProblemTurnsHuman BeingsAttentionWeekProduceProductionsGoodsLeisureTwo Days Author:Julian Huxley
“To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings?” PeopleHumansPersonsHas BeensBookReadingHuman BeingsAttentionAliveReader Author:David McCullough