Quotes About Attention

Share information that's valuable and you'll slowly but surely build a loyal audience. Then when you need to get the word out, the right people will already be listening.

Details reveal themselves as you use what you're building. You'll see what needs more attention. You'll feel what's missing. You'll know which potholes to pave over because you'll keep hitting them. That's when you need to pay attention, not sooner. The

People get stoked by conflict. They take sides. Passions are ignited. And that's a good way to get people to take notice.

Tener un contrincante te proporciona también una fantástica historia para contar a tus clientes. Tener una opinión marcada te hace destacar. La gente se anima cuando hay pelea. Toman partido. Los ánimos se encienden. Y esa es una forma estupenda de hacerse ver.

So build an audience. Speak, write, blog, tweet, make videos—whatever. Share information that's valuable and you'll slowly but surely build a loyal audience. Then when you need to get the word out, the right people will already be listening.

So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.

We find what we seek and pay attention to

Restoring what has broken is a reminder to be careful with that is here now.

La gente olvida más deprisa que nunca, quizá porque los periodistas olvidan más deprisa que nunca. Viven al día. No tienen tiempo de mirar atrás, y por eso no entienden lo que pasa delante, ni siquiera lo que pasa delante de sus narices.

Escuchar es lo más peligroso. Es saber, estar al tanto. Los oídos carecen de párpados que puedan cerrarse instintivamente a lo pronunciado, no pueden guardarse de lo que se presiente que va a escucharse, siempre es demasiado tarde".

se ahonda en la anomalía, en lo repugnante y mezquino como si nuestra norma fuese la del respeto y la generosidad y la rectitud y hubiese que analizar microscópicamente cuanto se sale de ella: como si la mala fe y la tradición, la malquerencia y la voluntad de daño no formaran parte de esa norma y fueran cosas excepcionales, y merecieran por ello todos nuestros desvelos y nuestra máxima atención. Y no es así.

Ha nem bírjuk levenni a szemünket valamirÅ'l, az olyan érzés, mintha irányítanának, nekünk pedig engedelmeskednünk kellene; már-már megalázó.

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something, and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear.

A veces uno se fija en alguien sólo porque ese alguien se ha fijado en uno.

Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It's not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerated the rate at which we attempt to do things. It's more of a diminishment of anything that isn't happening right now—and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.

Digiphrenia"—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.

The phones are smarter but we are dumber.

Saying "I'd like you to pay more attention to me" is more likely to produce a conversation (and a satisfying outcome) than "Is it impossible for you to focus on me just once?

Of course, neither Doug nor Andrew walked away from the parade thinking, "I enjoyed my particular perspective on the parade based on the information I paid attention to." Each walked away thinking, "I enjoyed the parade." Each assumes that what he paid attention to was what was significant about the experience. Each assumes he has "the facts.

We Notice Different Things.

Even when we have access to the same data, we tend to notice different things. We are all moving along the same sidewalk, but the historian may notice the brickwork, the jogger the impact on her knees, and the fellow in the wheelchair the areas that are less accessible. We're engulfed by information—far too much to take in—and so we select small samples to pay attention to and ignore the rest.

People more often need to be reminded than informed.

I understand twitter trolls for what they are, rather sad people with nothing better to do. I have this image of them sitting there waiting to be outraged.