“The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.” WorldEndsAttentionAwarenessBuddhismMajorsTransitionEnd Of The World Author:Frederick Lenz
“You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a lot of energy from it. Put your full attention into it and do a good job, because it is part of your impeccability.” JobsSuccessEnergyHoursLosesAttentionCareersBuddhismActivityMajorsGainsGood Job Author:Frederick Lenz
“What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country ... he knows that ... the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. ... This guy clearly understands he's getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder -- but something lesser.” IfsKnowsCountryPlayPoliticalGuyPartyAttentionSupportStupidMajorsMurderVictimBlameDemocratLocalsCardsPlusPolitical PartiesThis GuyAttemptingHatefulSheriffs Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLoveFeelsMindPersonsMatterCoursesLevelsPayAttentionKnow HowTakenMajorsOnenessRealization Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.” PeopleThinkingKnowsAttentionKnow HowTakenMajors Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.” MayImportantAttentionMajorsConstantOperationsNurseNursingSurgeonsCognitive Behavioral TherapyInspirational NurseInspirational NursingBrain SurgeonsCognitive TherapyInspiring NursingNursing SchoolGreat NursingStethoscope Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“The ongoing war in Afghanistan is being imposed on us, and Afghans are being sacrificed in it for someone else's interests. We are not blocking the interests of the United States or other major powers. But we are demanding that if you consider Afghanistan the place from which to advance your interests, then you should also pay attention to Afghanistan's interests.” IfsShouldWarStatesRealityPoliticsInterestJusticeUnitedPayAttentionUnited StatesPolicyMajorsEthicsBlockIdeologyPay AttentionAfghanistanForeign PolicyDiplomacyOngoing Author:Hamid Karzai
“I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.” ThinkingGivingEnergyAttentionFocusMaterialsMajorsMaterial Things Author:Sam Keen
“The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one.” PeopleKnowsGivingPastEnjoyAttentionMajorsPastorExceptionalSermonsCongregationUtterance Author:Marilynne Robinson
“By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.” FirstsFilmLinesPayAttentionMajorsMarkStudiosPay AttentionFoxes Author:Shirley Temple
“The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.” PeopleWayWellsBookFactsWinningDealsAttentionGayMajorsRemainsSellsRemarkableExceptionAwardsMainstreamOccasionalSexuallyGay PeopleExplicit Author:Garth Greenwell
“Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.” Has BeensSaidHelpingGivenAttentionBrainMajorsDetailsCriminalsComposerFrankAttention To DetailBrain PowerZappa Author:Gail Zappa
“I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works, some of them paying considerable attention to context, others applying various theoretical ideas, yet others focusing on details of language, or linking the work to the author's life, or connecting it with other works.” WayIdeasSeemsLiteratureLanguageAttentionPerspectiveMajorsDetailsVariousConnectingTheoreticalRespondingIlluminatingLiterary Works Author:Philip Kitcher
“I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.” WantLittlesWantedBitsAttentionMajorsLittle BitNoiseLabelsGoing Away Author:Beck
“It's important to remember there is a 20 year US. occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. That represents a major transition in the history of the country and kind of reshaping partly in terms of just their direction of their attention.” YearsKindImportantCountryRememberTermAttentionMajorsOccupationTransitionHaiti Author:Laurent Dubois
“If I were to go the major route, again, attention would probably be the first and foremost. You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me. As far as money, acclaim and fame, those things are a plus - accolades - they're all great.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsAttentionTeachSupportFameMajorsTreatsTreatedPlusRoutesSupport YouAccoladesAcclaim Author:Joe Budden
“When I was in the Senate, I had eight great years working with the community on major issues, trying to deal with problems that people brought to my attention. That's certainly what I intend to do as president. I think that is what President Obama has done.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsDoneProblemPresidentCommunityDealsAttentionIssuesMajorsEightPresident ObamaSenateGreat Year Author:Hillary Clinton
“The thing that I focus on because I don't think it gets enough attention is that among the world's major powers, there is still a nuclear balance of terror - I'm talking about between the United States and Russia, the United States and China.” ThinkingWorldStillsStatesEnoughUnitedAttentionTalkingUnited StatesFocusBalanceMajorsTerrorChinaNuclearRussia Author:John Burroughs