Top 100 Full Attention Quotes
#1. If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.
Deepak Chopra
#3. Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.
Robert Breault
#4. The most efficient way to transcend unsettling thoughts is through the life breath. When we bring our full attention to the life breath, it becomes a gateway to access a deeper and higher level of awareness.
Christopher Dines
#5. We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.
Al Gore
#6. plews." Glass paid the captain his full attention. Every citizen of St. Louis knew some version of Drouillard's story, but Glass had never heard a first-person account. "He did that twice, went out and came back with a pack of plews. Last thing he said before he left the third time was,
Michael Punke
#7. Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.
Eckhart Tolle
#8. When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.
Sarah Ruhl
#9. When she's in the same room as you, she commands your full attention." "Is it that obvious?" "It couldn't have been more obvious if you had painted this is my mate on your forehead with an arrow pointing to Anya.
Kiersten Fay
#10. He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.
Ransom Riggs
#11. Give full attention to what you do. If you give a rapt attention to what you do, you can have what you could have done in 3 hours well completed within 2 hours or less. Concentration is the key word.
Israelmore Ayivor
#12. Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.
Daniel Goleman
#13. Give full attention to life's moments
and the images you capture will be everlasting.
Gina Greenlee
#14. This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.
Mark Nepo
#15. The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.
Dan Millman
#16. Self-pity needed her full attention, and only in solitude could she breathe life into the lacerating details, but at the instant of her assent - how the tilt of a skull could change a life! - Lola had picked up the bundle of Briony's manuscript from
Ian McEwan
#17. When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Quality time does not mean that we have to spend our together moments gazing into each other's eyes. It means that we are doing something together and that we are giving our full attention to the other person.
Gary Chapman
#19. What you think and do now builds.
Value this moment.
Be patient.
Smile often.
Love the process of living each minute fully.
Your presence is a source of strength
and an inspiration
to people you spend time with.
Give your greatest gift
your full attention,
yourself.
Alexandra Stoddard
#20. How did a woman who was not even forty years old - and barely five feet tall in heels - come to command the full attention of a superpower like America
Monique Brinson Demery
#21. Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.
David Jeremiah
#22. Believe me, once you have tasted worship - the kind of worship that captures your heart and rivets your full attention on the living Lord - nothing less satisfies. Nothing else even comes close. Once you have tasted true worship, you will never want to play church again.
Charles R. Swindoll
#23. Proactively bring passion to everything you touch, to everything you do. No matter what task is in front of you, bring as much enthusiasm and energy to it as you possibly can. Bring your full attention, your full presence, the Godlike quality that each of us has within, to every task in your day.
Marie Forleo
#25. You attract whatever you focus your full attention on. That thing can be good or bad. The universe doesn't discriminate between the two. It will bring you whatever you think about. This is the Law of Attraction.
Read Dragon Publishing
#26. The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.
Erich Fromm
#27. When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
Matthew McConaughey
#28. If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.
Joss Whedon
#29. Thus saying, I turned my full attention to the lock. Like a proper maiden, it resisted for a token moment. But, upon further adept agitation of its slender hole, it relinquished its charms with smooth, willing finesse.
Gabrielle Harbowy
#30. Orholam," Gavin said, "do I have your full attention?" "Always." "Good." He cracked his neck right and left. "Because fuck you." He dove into the water.
Brent Weeks
#31. Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God - on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion.
Billy Graham
#32. The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
Bill Watterson
#33. Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your full attention into it.
Frederick Lenz
#34. I taught the older grades - five through eight. They required my full attention and kept my mind busy.
Vannetta Chapman
#35. You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a lot of energy from it. Put your full attention into it and do a good job, because it is part of your impeccability.
Frederick Lenz
#36. I raised a brow. "So you do listen."
"When it involves your lips, you have my full attention.
Priscilla West
#38. You can drive."
When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.
Nalini Singh
#39. Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone.
Magda Gerber
#40. The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive.
Samael Aun Weor
#41. The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me
Barbara Morgenroth
#42. You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention.
Emmylou Harris
#43. Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.
Walter Brueggemann
#44. Brethren, you won't believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our churches need) with full attention and total bewilderment. The question that I kept on hearing was: "why are other Christian ministers not doing the same thing?
Sunday Adelaja
#45. I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.
Mikal Cronin
#46. The needs of our personal life are not separate from those of ourwork life. Our inability to be mindful and bring our full attention to what we are doing has both personal and professional costs.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#47. I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.
Silvio Scaglia
#48. When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
Michael LeBoeuf
#49. by listening with full attention, by acknowledging his feelings with a word, by giving a name to his feelings, and by granting him his wishes in fantasy.
Adele Faber
#50. Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
Christopher Fry
#51. Now he had her full attention. Not only because she wanted to know what had happened, but because anyone who'd get up at two in the morning to smack a melon in the dark deserved attention. Perhaps even medical attention.
Louise Penny
#52. If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.
Sandra Lee
#53. If people thought you were dying they gave you their full attention.
Chuck Palahniuk
#54. He was silent, and she finally gave him her full attention. "You're creepy, you know?"
A small grin plucked at one corner of his mouth. "I thought you liked strong silent types these days."
"There's silent, and then there's you.
Lauren Gilley
#55. The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.
Michel Faber
#56. there are five specific factors that determine fitness; you are in firm possession of four of them." "Really?" She stopped fidgeting and gave him back her full attention. "Absolutely," he told her enthusiastically. "The criteria break down into cardiovascular
Stephanie Evanovich
#57. Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.
Jan Chozen Bays
#58. To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
Jack Kornfield
#59. People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.
Linda Stone
#60. That other woman may have entered his thoughts every now and then, but only as a regret. I was the one who had his full attention now.
S.J. Pajonas
#61. It's not really a practical dream to have, is it?
He stares right at me. It's intense, being under the weight of his full attention. Dreams have to be practical?
Hannah Harrington
#62. A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.
Dave Morris
#63. The people we live with and work with on a daily basis deserve our full attention. When we give people segmented attention, piecemeal time, switching back and forth, the switching cost is higher than just the time involved. We end up damaging relationships.
Gary W. Keller
#64. Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Eknath Easwaran
#65. It was Cinder's voice. "Hello, dearest Aunt Levana," she said, her tone light and taunting. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but I wanted to make sure I had your full attention. First, allow me to congratulate you. It seems you finally have everything you've always wanted. Now, it's my turn." There
Marissa Meyer
#66. You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.
Eckhart Tolle
#67. When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.
Billy Graham
#68. Motivated people are passionate! They love what they do and they are full of themselves (in the nicest possible way). Their enthusiasm and excitement are catching and they attract other people's interest and attention.
Lynda Field
#69. First there is the 10-second war: can you do something in your first moments on stage to ensure people's eager attention while you set up your talk topic? Second is the 1-minute war: can you then use that first minute to ensure that they're committed to coming on the full talk journey with you?
Chris J. Anderson
#70. If we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.
Vladimir Putin
#71. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry.
Fernando Pessoa
#72. My sounds [crying] were small and muffled but obvious. No one paid any attention. It was the way we had become. In a world full of sorrows, this was only one more.
Elizabeth Berg
#73. When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there.
Mandy Hale
#74. And I chose you. I had been wrong before. It was romantic, what he said, what he did. Even while he hurt me, I had his full focus, his complete attention. His care, like worship. His love, an obsession.
Skye Warren
#75. I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
John Rowland
#76. Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.
Brene Brown
#77. Life is bliss. It is unbounded, deep within; and it is full of boundaries outside. So we advise the people to turn the attention within, experience that unbounded wholeness of life, and bring the mind out fully saturated with that
start to live unboundedness in the field of boundaries.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#78. The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel
#79. Women love having a man in the store. She tries on a dress and I tell her to turn around so I can get the full effect. Or she likes a skirt but she thinks maybe the blouse is too plain. So I grab a scarf and drape it around her neck. That personal attention means everything.
M.R. Cornelius
#80. I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.
Lena Olin
#81. There is good all around us, but we get so used to it that we forget to celebrate it. The bad and unfortunate circumstances in our lives do not deserve all of our attention and energy. Remember to look for the good and to give that your full time and attention. It makes all the difference.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#82. Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.
Colin Neenan
#83. There were the garden shears, the knitting needles; the world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. I should have paid attention
Margaret Atwood
#84. So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see which drives people to travel to strange places.
Rabindranath Tagore
#85. Full concentration brings relaxation and joy. It is the struggle of divided attention that brings a great deal of the misery that we associate with jobs we don't like.
Eknath Easwaran
#86. In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
Jan Egeland
#87. I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where no more than two or three people are known to us in depth.
Irene Nemirovsky
#88. Infinite goes all the way up and all the way down; and at every level, with equal attention, He creates with the full dose of His personality.
N.D. Wilson
#90. I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.
George Combe
#91. There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
Bill Hybels
#92. Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
Agnes Repplier
#93. What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen with all my being, I am completely interested. I seek momentarily a full communion of eyes, feelings, thoughts.
Anais Nin
#94. Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
Busy Philipps
#95. I'm not so sure reading Scripture will keep us from having to face trouble as much as it will focus our attention on our Help in those times. The Bible's full of stories about good folks with troubles. Good folks. God-fearin' folks.
Mona Hodgson
#96. (Da) "Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you."
(Later) "Sorry, Son, I missed that," Ma said. "Ignoring you can be a full-time job.
Brian Farrey
#97. To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
John Lasseter
#98. In effect, dividing your attention means that neither (or none) of the things you're working on is really getting the full effect of your intelligence, and that it in the end takes you longer than it would if you did one thing at a time.
James Surowiecki
#99. Our approach to education has remained largely unchanged since the Renaissance: From middle school through college, most teaching is done by an instructor lecturing to a room full of students, only some of them paying attention.
Daphne Koller
#100. How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light
Mary Oliver
