Quotes About Attention

When you try to extinguish a tantrum by ignoring it, the first response you always get is called an extinction burst. People will do whatever it is you are trying to ignore louder, longer, and more enthusiastically. This might make you believe that ignoring them isn't working, but what it actually means is that it is.

Conspicuous Boredom Unless the subject of the conversation is how great they are, Narcissistic vampires will become visibly bored. One of the main reasons Narcissists wear expensive watches is so they can look at them when someone else is talking. Besides boredom, Narcissistic vampires have only two other emotional states. They're either on top of the world or on the bottom of the garbage heap. The slightest frustration can burst their balloon and send them crashing to the depths.

With Ham-it-up vampires, the do and say distinction begins with listening to the actual content of their words. These vampires seldom lie, but they seldom tell the whole truth, except when it slips out between the lines. Pay attention to detail. Ask questions to determine the who, what, when, where, and why of situations before assuming you know what's going on.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it. Each thing only reminds us of what it is And it's only what nothing else is. The fact that it's it separates it from every other thing. (Everything's nothing without another thing that's not it).

The main thing is knowing how to see, To know how to see without thinking, To know how to see when you see, And not think when you see Or see when you think.

Demuestre que usted es un autor «inteligente»; en esa forma nadie sabrá que es inteligente de verdad, cosa peligrosísima. Téngalo en cuenta: muchas personas leen solamente los títulos. Después compran la obra y la archivan en sus bibliotecas per sécula. Si no se esmera, perderá el treinta y cinco por ciento de los lectores.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Your true homeland is the universe. Your true goal is to be yourself Your true love is the love of life. Your true power is your powerto help. Your true happiness is to enjoy what you do. Your true work is to create beauty. Your true magic is to develop your attention. Your true social action is to liberate consciences. Your true discipline is to tame your ego. Your true truth "The others are also me

The lesson and the imperative of psychoanalysis is not "Let us devote all our attention to the sexual (meaning) as our ultimate horizon"; it is instead a reduction of sex and the sexual (which, in fact, has always been overloaded with meanings and interpretations) to the point of ontological inconsistency, which, as such, is irreducible.

Ma sarebbe ridicolo il dimostrar che uomini potevano veder cose che l'uomo non può non vedere: può bensì non volerci badare.

It was like walking: if Rumbold didn't concentrate too hard on it, the illusion took care of itself

The more you drive the less intelligent you are.

Urmson and his colleagues learned that as their technology improved, the humans using it would become less reliable. "We realized that this was going to be much much harder to do than we had thought," said engineer Dave Ferguson. "It just became clear that, look, if we can't rely on the driver to pay attention, or to hand over control to, then basically we just have to solve the whole problem. We need to have this vehicle not need the driver.

When I was lost in my own thoughts, Cathy would always say, 'You're not listening to me.' She was right.

Many people cannot stop long enough to listen - especially when they become successful and all the people around them are being obsequious and pretending to hang on their every word.

These are exceptional examples. On the whole it is better to explain to the people around you that you care about little details, but that it's their job to attend to them.

What happened December 12?" Polyester asks. I look at the wall, my attention suddenly riveted by a palmetto bug, feelers writhing. I could kill it if I wanted. He hit me." The bug slides to the floor.

The range of what we see and do Is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice That we fail to notice, There is little we can do To change Until we notice How failing to notice Shapes our thoughts and deeds. R. D. Laing With

For the novelists in your life I have heard it said that it is better if you pretend they do something else and that it is always attended to, and doesn't need your attention in the slightest. And then when asked for support, muster an enormous enthusiasm.

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

The old Jack's yardstick: if it moves, salute it! If it doesn't, paint it!

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.