I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to...

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Walk slowly through the world and pay attention

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

Was Du in Dir nährst, das wächst.

Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.

In a variation on James’s recipe for interesting experience–the familiar leavened by the novel–Hobbs’s “art of choosing difficulties” requires selecting projects that are “just manageable.” If an activity is too easy, you lose focus and...

I’ll date you, love…not you and your iPad. I can’t feel plastic palm play; I’m live like Memorex.

When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.

I’ve always tried to work hard. I’m not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do not attend to the things said to them, because they are...

We as Democrats have not been very interested in poverty or issues relating to the inner city as much as we should have. Think about the last presidential campaign: It’s pretty hard to focus a...

It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.

Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of...

Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular attendance, attention and action.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

All that mattered was him looking at me

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of...

It’s easy to get lost in our own heads. It’s easy to allow the thoughts and worries and plans and hopes to take on their own lives and control our minds in such a way...

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don’t consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here’s a few clues that you’re a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2)...

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody’s attention will turn elsewhere.

Mistakes Are Life’s Lectures You Didn’t Plan To Attend But Situations Or People Made You Attend Them….Pay Attention And Learn From Them

The finger I dipped in the jar was not the finger I licked.

I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don’t mind.

I don’t have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and...

I love attention.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000...

If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. “Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you’re really concentrating, because...

I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

If attention was a product on the market, a lot of people would spend their entire savings on it.

You have to pay a lot of attention to what’s important, what’s permanent, what’s real.

Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl’s laugh grabbed my attention.

Things are better now that the attention has subsided a bit, and I’m happier. Now I can concentrate on what I’m supposed to do, that is, training and running. Despite everything that’s happened, I feel...

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

People with Complex PTSD suffer from more severe and frequent dissociation symptoms, as well as memory and attention problems, than those with simple PTSD. In addition to amnesia due to the activity of various parts...

However, by Sunday noon–not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America–you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering from the Sabbath existential crisis. It’s at just such unfocused, unproductive...

Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Why are…poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their...

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don’t have the advantages that we have.