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"The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart."
"Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite."
"Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger."
"We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values."
"When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally."
"It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor."
"You are of no advantage to anyone who has your negative attention."
"Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention."
"It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before."
"Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now."
"Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them."
"In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them."
"One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life."
"If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words."
"There is always more information than attention"
"Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love."
"Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now."
"Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being."
"'-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore."
"If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara."
