Quotes on Attentiveness

Attentiveness or vigilance is the quality of holding all our senses and faculties to the present moment, that is, being "all there". Here are some reflections on this quality...

"Attention or concentration is probably the most important essential in the development of mind culture...The cultivation of attention is the distinguishing characteristic of every successful man or woman, and is the very highest personal accomplishment which can be acquired." - Charles Haanel

"Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening." - G.I. Gurdjieff

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." — Marilyn vos Savant

"The man whose mind is vigilant and alert, has thereby a valuable equipment in the achievement of his aims; and if he be fully alive and wide- awake on all occasions, to all opportunities, and against all marring defects of character, what event, what circumstance, what enemy shall overtake him and find him unprepared? What shall prevent him from achieving the legitimate and at which he aims?" - James Allen.

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson

"If you are not grateful then you really are not paying attention" - Anonymous

"The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable quality in every study and 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

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