365 Quote Quest: #618 Attention is vitality

Monday, February 13, 2012

#618 Attention is vitality

Do stuff, be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager; stay eager. ~ Susan Sontag

- What engaging stuff can you do?
- Where can you show more attention and eagerness?
- What connections await?

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer. ~Aryeh Frimer

A prudent question is one half of wisdom. ~Francis Bacon

A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements. ~ Bo Bennett

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask. ~Sam Keen

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ~ Eugene Ionesco

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. ~ Confucius

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. ~ Earl Gray Stevens

Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers. ~ Peter Block

We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question we do not know. ~ Archibald MacLeish

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

Judge a man by this questions rather than by his answers. ~ Voltaire

The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~ Albert Einstein

The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. ~ Carl Jung

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place, but a seed to be planted and to bear more seeds toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of that question. ~ Tennessee Williams

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. ~ Dr. Seuss

The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better question. ~Tony Robbins

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers. ~ Joseph Albers.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. ~ Anton Chekhov

There is always the question why, and there is always life which doesn't need an answer. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. ~ Henri Arnold

Live your questions now, and perhaps you will live along some distant day into your answers. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke