Inspirational Quotes on Attention

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”

“From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady on the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.”

“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.”