Robert Irwin Quotes

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

He kept his ear so close to the ground that it was full of grasshoppers.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

Presence is in the eye and ear and gut of the beholder. When you are totally present in a conversation or in a meeting, others around you perceive you as totally focused on the matter at hand and on being of value to them.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

I know it's cheesy, but if you listen to the universe, it gives you pointers. I strongly believe if you keep your ears open and eyes open, your path will become clear. You just have to make sure you don't ignore it.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

Don't think that the things around you don't count, because they do.