Attention Quotes

"As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention."

"Attention is powerful and can dampen violence even in seemingly worst conditions."

“I've always just wanted people to look at me.”

“Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.”

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

Simone Weil

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

Isaac Newton

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

Henry Miller

"We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in."

Craig Davis

"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."

Richard Moss

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”

“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving, by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”

"When people talk, listen completely."

"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

Mary Oliver

"Nobody sees a flower, really; it is so small; we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."

Georgia O'Keeffe

"To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again."

"Attention is the beginning of devotion."

Mary Oliver

"You see, but you do not observe."

Arthur Conan Doyle

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

Simone Weil