paying-attention

MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them in secret, when another year just begins as a matter of fact, it's easy to fail to appreciate what a miracle it is to have more time. So, I suppose, it feels different right now because this time you're paying attention

You have to pay attention to the road even if you don't know where you're going.

Who doesn't want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated _ it matters...that people matter.

It's hard to pay attention to those who don't believe in you, when you are busy attending to the daily demands of your goals.

Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.

She says: ...love is really all that matters. He hears: ...really love to do it on the mattress.

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures.

It is only when you pay attention to ordinary people that you convince God that you are really serving Him

They say faith is taking the first step when you can__ see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

There's always more than what meets the eye. If you dig in deep enough and pay attention, you can really see the beauty in a person.

Mindfulness has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is examining who we are, constantly questioning our views of the world and our place in it, while cultivating appreciation for the fullness of each moment we are alive. It is the direct opposite of taking life for granted. It is empowering as well, because paying attention in this way opens channels to deep reservoirs of creativity, intelligence, imagination, clarity, determination, choice, and wisdom within us.

One of the very striking life lessons from Game of Thrones.When Arya was blind; hopeless and helpless. The Waif lured her into multiple stick fights and the Waif would promptly beat Arya in every sparring match. But through those stick fight, Arya learned to cope with her blindness and how to fight __n the dark.__fter Arya had regained her sight and Jaqen had granted the Waif__ wish to kill Arya. Arya confronted the Waif in a hideout and put out the only light in the room. Arya best the Waif due to her proficiency in fighting without sight (which, ironically, was trained by the Waif). Arya killed her adversary.ONE THING ABOUT CHALLENGES IN LIFE IS: THROUGH THEM, WE LEARN HOW TO OVERCOME THEM. Always Pay Attention!

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

The world is in sore need of good listeners. And in our own lives, it__ amazing to recognize just how valuable listening can be for us. How many mistakes have you made because you didn__ listen well? Personally, I__e made many__nd I__e missed out on some wonderful opportunities because I was more interested in sharing what I had to say than I was in listening to what someone else had to say.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. __our hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we__e out of purgatory for the weekend.___aybe later,_ I murmur, still distracted by the day__ previous events.__o, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested._ __uh?_ I say.

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty.