Focus And Pay Attention Quotes

#1. Our cells stimulate our pain receptors in order to get our brain to focus and pay attention. Once my brain acknowledges the existence of the pain, then it has served its purpose and either lightens up in intensity, or goes away.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#2. Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

Robert Genn

#3. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

Israelmore Ayivor

#4. Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

Frederick Lenz

#5. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

Sam Altman

#7. Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

Adolf Hitler

#8. I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

Bryan Cranston

#9. You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

Julian Schnabel

#10. I always see myself as, like, equal to everyone.

Miranda Kerr

#11. The secret for mastery is concentration; the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master!

Israelmore Ayivor

#12. The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

Richard Louv

#13. New Zealand has the best government money can buy.

Grant McLachlan

#14. The bar ... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.

Luis Bunuel

#15. I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.

Joan Jett

#16. If you get up every morning and smile, it's a good place to be.

Nicki Chapman

#17. I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.

Rick Boucher

#18. Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.

Rodney Mullen

#19. Being kind is not an invitation to be dumped on. So be kind, but not at the expense of your self-respect.

Charles F. Glassman

#20. Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#21. It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.

James L. Farmer Jr.

#22. All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

Lucas Till

#23. I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive ... is money.

Asher Brown Durand

#24. I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Virat Kohli

#25. All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.

Michael Strahan

#26. Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

Sharon Salzberg

#27. The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

Ricky Williams

#28. Do not pay attention to those who are trying to stop or hinder you

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Get tuned in to the goals created from each dream and stay focused. You might miss the goals if you are not focused.

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.

Bill Shuster

#31. Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Joss Whedon

#32. We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Mark Zuckerberg

#33. Keep off your mind from the reward until the work is done; else you may be directed out of focus by the reward's appeals if it catches your attention!

Israelmore Ayivor

#34. It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.

Tim Gunn

#35. ..those soul-satisfying feelings quickly capture our attention, and we no longer wish to pay attention to physical clues. Instead, our focus is on the immense satisfaction the feelings are providing.

Errol R. Fish