Attuned Quotes

#1. This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to the light as the shadows, with a limitless hunger for experience and knowledge, completely unafraid of life's more frightening opportunities.

Elizabeth Winder

#2. What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.

Werner Erhard

#3. If your mind is attuned to beauty, you find beauty in everything.

Jean Cooke

#4. For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not.

Gunter Grass

#5. A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.

Billy Graham

#6. Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful, and who their coaches were.

Jerry West

#7. Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed.

John O'Donohue

#8. I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.

Pattiann Rogers

#9. My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch, and that we be conscious and sensorially attuned to this world in this moment that we are alive.

Karim Rashid

#10. Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel.

David Rose

#11. The skill of becoming and remaining attuned to another's emotional rhythms requires a solid investment of years. (205)

Thomas Lewis

#12. When designing a collection that is traditional, that has one specific sort of garment like a white dress, I think just being constantly attuned to trends really help.

Austin Scarlett

#13. When you found a woman who wanted to get up close and personal with your inner caveman on a long-term basis, you had to be her everything, because you were demanding that of her. You had to commit to becoming so attuned to every little shade and shift in her moods that she could hide nothing.

Eden Connor

#14. While Motherhood is not perfect, we have the opportunity to share many beautiful and perfect moments with our children everyday. We just need to be awake to those moments and attuned to them so we can more fully enjoy them. ~ Mothering with Spiritual Power by Debra Sansing Woods

Debra Sansing Woods

#15. To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.

John O'Donohue

#16. The artist ... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

Eric Maisel

#17. Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#18. Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.

Paul Auster

#19. I am thankful that to be attuned to the needs of another attunes us to the world, and that if I stay attuned only to my needs I will always be a stranger to the world.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#21. Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses. An understanding of tactile and other components that go into the creation of those objects are important to making them look real on screen, like a plasma of energy.

John Dykstra

#22. I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

Rufus Wainwright

#23. We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.

Alexander Lowen

#24. Very young, I was not able to find myself interesting without intelligent response. I required the company of minds attuned to my own, but no one around gave me back the words I needed to hear.

Vivian Gornick

#25. Bizarrely funny ... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.

Janet Maslin

#26. Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond.

Anne McCaffrey

#27. When you're attuned to Spirit, there is nothing in the outer world that matters.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#28. I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.

Henry Selick

#29. To touch this abomination with anything less perfectly attuned to its nature than the carefully dispersed wings of an engine field would be like an ancient, fragile rocket ship falling into a sun, like a wooden sea-ship encountering an atomic blast.

Iain M. Banks

#30. We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots movement where people will become attuned to uncompassionate discourse in the same way as we are now attuned to sort of gender imbalance in our speech.

Karen Armstrong

#31. The spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Carlos Castaneda

#32. In the Lotus Sutra, it is said everything is emptiness - this world is empty, hell is empty, heaven is empty, God is empty, everything is emptiness. Emptiness is the nature of all things, nothingness, so be attuned to nothingness and you will achieve.

Rajneesh

#33. Marriage is more than joining the bonds of two people. It's the uniting of two souls already attuned to each other.

Sophie Monroe

#34. At the very instant that you think, "I am happy," a chemical messenger translates your emotion, which has no solid existence whatever in the material world, into a bit of matter so perfectly attuned to your desire that literally every cell in your body learns of your happiness and joins in.

Deepak Chopra

#35. If you spend time alone in the wilderness, you get very attuned to living things.

George Dyson

#36. I've always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.

Annaleigh Ashford

#37. Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

H. P. Blavatsky

#38. Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.

Charles R. Morris

#39. It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

John Boorman

#40. I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.

David Brooks

#41. An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#42. Popular kids don't necessarily know who they are because they're so busy trying to conform. It's the outcasts who are more attuned to who they are. They're more self-aware, more real.

Alexandra Robbins

#43. The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.

Billy Al Bengston

#44. I'm not big into the caveman look like some guys are. But I think it's pretty awesome that guys are more attuned to themselves and making beards a part of their style.

Jose Bautista

#45. I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.

Jess Walter

#46. Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#47. There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.

William Damon

#48. But we simply can't attune to another in ways that no one has attuned to us. We can't open in another what is closed in ourselves.

Teri Quatman

#49. The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one sees.

Martin Heidegger

#50. Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned. And that is why many companies are willing to pay them in millions.

Assegid Habtewold

#51. I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans ... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.

Alan Ball

#52. That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.

Frederick Lenz

#53. If your heart is not attuned to God, it will become a catch basin for every device of the devil. Yes, Satan is at work in our world. The Bible is my authority.

Billy Graham

#54. Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

Spencer W. Kimball

#55. Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Xavier Niel

#56. When we are attuned to our inner voice, life becomes art and art becomes life.

Yuval Ron

#57. In two and a half years' trekking across central Asia, I'd become attuned to the late autumn conditions when the hazards of winter can blow in under the cover of darkness.

Tim Cope

#58. The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity.

Wassily Kandinsky

#59. We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him
if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Peter Brook

#60. Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.

Nicholas Sparks

#61. To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#62. Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#63. We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.

Nicholas G. Carr

#64. A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.

Alain De Botton

#65. When you have the worst disaster in American history, you've got to be attuned to expectations,.

Charles Krauthammer

#66. Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?

Ken Wilber

#67. It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Eric Hoffer

#68. Chords reel and the mind reels,
and for all I know
The minds of the Gods reel as well
For if the Gods have minds
They must be attuned to music and to harmony.
Harmony is but the pulse of Chaos
And to such pulsation
Even stones resound.

Tobeimean Peter

#69. No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.

Lon Milo DuQuette

#70. He found himself becoming more attuned to her moods, her cycles; he listened to her tick as if she were a wounded clock. 'As

Stephen King

#71. A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may ...

Stephanie Mills

#72. If the first job one has in a given profession acts as a tuning fork for the career that follows, Frederick Thomas was attuned from the start to a pitch of the highest quality.

Vladimir Alexandrov

#73. Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.

William Henry Drummond

#74. For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

Ed Begley Jr.

#75. A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

Lorenzo Carcaterra

#76. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in the moments before I pass off into sleep - ideas explode into my head like fireworks.

Daniel Keyes

#77. There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.

Thomas Hood

#78. The question, then, the art, the task, the search, the challenge, the invitation is for you and me to become more and more the kind of people who are aware of the divine presence, attuned to the ruach,

Rob Bell

#79. Nothing happens by mistake the universe has a divine plan ... Stay attuned to it.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#80. Directing is genderless. The only thing ... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

Lori Petty

#81. A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.

Daniel H. Pink

#82. Control.... is not what we need.
What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees - flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.

Patricia Pearson

#83. Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

William Arthur Ward

#84. When I'm on stage, I feel very much at home - within a theater, within an ensemble - so this entire process is something I feel very attuned with.

Emilia Clarke

#85. Shut out from the world with its blare and glare, life in an institution moves softly. The ears become attuned to gentle notes and a subdued tone.

Mary B. Harris

#86. The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre ... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in the Dorian mode. Such a one makes me joyous with the sound of his voice, so eager am I in drinking in his words.

Plato

#87. As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Edward Thomson

#88. At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.

Confucius

#89. Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

Mark Feuerstein

#90. As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations.

Jack Canfield

#91. The idea that our unconscious possesses such sure aim excited me. I became more attuned to my own erroneously carried out actions.

Alison Bechdel

#92. The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

D.T. Suzuki

#93. The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me.

Oprah Winfrey

#94. There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.
Someone had stolen a book.

Terry Pratchett

#95. Self-help books for women are part of a multibillion-dollar industry, sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses.

Harriet Lerner

#96. If it were not for the assurance that I have that the Lord is near to us, guiding, directing, the burden would be almost beyond my strength, but because I know that He is there, and that He can be appealed to, and if we have ears to hear attuned to Him, we will never be left alone

Harold B. Lee

#97. Be in the world but not of it; become less attached to outcome and more attuned to outgo, which is the natural radiance of your being.

Derek Rydall

#98. Someone once said, 'God is simple, all else is complex.' The more attuned you become to God, the simpler and more beautiful your life becomes.

John Harricharan

#99. Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.

Donna Farhi

#100. Nowness is the sense that we are attuned to what is happening. The past is fiction and the future is a dream, and we are just living on the edge of a razor blade.

Chogyam Trungpa