Attention Quotes

We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things. Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.

You create attention to attract attention.

Anything yields to you only to the extent you pay attention to it.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

The stuff we choose to surround ourselves has a claim on our time, energy, and attention and finally on our life. 

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

Forget about the past. It does not exist, except in your memory. Drop it. And stop worrying about how you’re going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on right here, right now – pay attention to that and all will be well.