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Quotations about attention

Jim RohnOne of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.

 - Jim Rohn

Tags:   attention  gifts  

John AdamsA pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

 - John Adams

Tags:   ambition  attention  writing  

Charles DickensThe one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable quality in every study and in every pursuit is the quality of attention. My own invention, or imagination, such as it is, I can most truthfully assure you, would never have served me as it has but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.

 - Charles Dickens

Tags:   attention  focus  

Saul BellowArt has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm...an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

 - Saul Bellow

Tags:   art  attention  chaos  distraction