Attentive Quotes

“If people in power are artfully pulling a red herring to cover up the cataclysm of their commitments, keeping people on a short leash and driving them playfully into an alley of false promises, we would do well to rely on attentive and considerate observers who send out alarm signals in time to prevent social corrosion. (" High noon. ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Life may be an arcane riddle, a play with many complementary acts or an unfinished chronicle with odd sequences. Still and all, whatever we might think or do, let us above all be attentive and expectant, since everyone is waiting for the pieces to fall into place, at one time or another. ("Drunken sailor" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Simply become aware of your thoughts and actions. Become attentive to yourself .Meditation is not something that is only done in a particular posture or situation. It is an attitude towards life.”
― Anupama Garg

“Performing magic in the live show thrills me. Just get me a deck of cards and some attentive audience, and I have made my day and theirs too”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Wake up.
If your eyes are sleeping
then wipe them gently.
You need to be awake for this.
It is a matter of life and death.

Wake up!
If your mind is sleeping
then shake it quickly.
You need to be awake for this.
It is a matter of life and death.

Wake up, I said!
If your heart is sleeping
then beat your chest!
You need to be awake for life!
You need to be awake for love!
It is a matter of living and being alive.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Always be attentive of your ego.”
― Anupama Garg, The Tantric Curse

“She was somewhere to the right of him, moving without a sound. He’d heard other members of the gang say she moved like a cat, but he suspected cats would sit attentively at her feet to learn her methods.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“To ‘live’ is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Pay attention to your goals and never let the euphoria of the early success convince you to brag about.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Try listening with more than just your ears.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I can endlessly ‘talk’ about the need to ‘listen’. Yet in doing so, I’m once again doing the very opposite of what I say I should be doing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Concentration in the job keeps quality in the work.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“If I’m going to write something that moves the masses and seizes one’s soul, I have to force myself to sit and watch life long before I ever attempt to sit and write about it. For without the watching the writing doesn’t matter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“However much you might watch me I should be watching you more.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“There is the head of the axe and the head of him who wields it. And if both are sharp, the size of the axe and the height of the tree doesn’t matter.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To develop the person inside you is to pay attention and develop life within yourself”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Focus on being a good listener, which includes being patient and attentive.”
― Diane Bowers

“The greatest lessons I have ever learned happened at the times where I kept my mouth shut and my ears open. The problem is, I have great difficulty keeping those in the right order.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I seek more than diminishing pain. I want to experience a splendid life, a life full of gaiety, charming people, beautiful panoramas, outstanding adventures, and sublime interpersonal experiences. In place of squandering personal resources and wasting valuable time, yearning to satisfying these improbable goals, I wish to learn from gross errors. I desire to cease castigating myself for prior mistakes. A realistic personal goal is striving to achieve presence of mind, demonstrate consistent attentiveness to the present, rather than continually worry about the past or the future.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Focus on the act and efforts, not on the outcome and obstacles.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Truly paying attention to something or someone makes it or them seem as big as the universe.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes in the thick quiet of those soft summer nights, I listen. For it is in the quiet that the voices of things deep and marvelous and adventurous whisper simply because a world of noise grants them no space. Therefore, if we have no quiet, we will hear plenty of noise, but we will not hear a single voice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If your ears are the only thing that’s listening, you aren’t hearing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Those who are happy, tend to follow a certain set of habits that create peace in their lives; if you learn to apply these habits in your own life, there’s a good chance you’ll be happy too.”
― Dee Waldeck

“Like, you're the type who can figure out what a girl wants and then make it happen. You don't make a big deal out of it; you just pay attention and then act on what you see.”
― Saekisan, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 3