Leon Redbone Quotes

When you're in the field, you just focus on the task at hand.

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

If you aren't listening, you are missing out.

You need to have laser focus on doing your job.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.

Seeing the small is called clarity.

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

One either meets or one works.

“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

Art is about paying attention.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

Look eye! Always look eye!

Just concentrate on what you're supposed to do

[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

I don't concentrate on if a moment is scary or not. That's not my job.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.