Quotes About Attention

You want to walk into that funeral and have every dude in that room whip their head around and say, 'God-damn them is some fine-ass titties. I got to find me a divorce lawyer in the next five minutes.

Have you never noticed that, after hearing a new word for the first time in your life, you'll hear it again within twenty-four hours?

But if you come to define success, in both business and in life, as philosophers and religions have for millennia, by the satisfaction derived from work itself and not the degree of attention you receive for it, people like Johns and Canby—the Invisibles—offer a model you would do well to follow. Ask yourself: Do I want to be on a treadmill of competition with others, or do I want to find lasting reward by challenging myself?

El Señor guarde a los niños! Pues todos ellos tienen su Predicador que los persigue por el sombrío río del miedo y la imposibilidad de expresar lo que sienten y las puertas cerradas. Todos son mudos y están solos, porque no hay palabras para expresar el miedo de un niño, ni oídos que le presten atención, y, si las hubiera, nadie las entendería aunque las oyera. ¡El Señor guarde a los niños! Los niños lo soportan todo y superan cualquier obstáculo.

We can decide to go to our favorite spot in nature or listen to a piece of music that lifts us into a state of ecstasy. We can change the broadcast channel, turning off the news and tuning to the words and energy of an inspirational teacher instead. We can make a conscious decision to lift our attention from ordinary local reality to the sublime nonlocal signal of the universal mind.

Focus is when attention is centered in the meditative state. Then mind wandering begins. We become aware that the mind is wandering, then shift ourselves back into focus. Seeing meditation as this four-part cycle, rather than as a single ideal state, gives us a more realistic picture of what to expect in our meditation sessions.

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

If artists put more effort into being ignored, they'd get more attention

The more attention you seek the more invisibility you reap

That was the trouble with explaining with words. If you explained with gunpowder, people listened.

I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.

Debes prestarle atención a tu corazón, aunque no sepas adonde van a conducirte sus dictados. Hacer otra cosa sería abrirle la puerta a la tristeza.

My feelings towards my father were ambivalent in the extreme. I vacillated between craving his attention and hoping never again to hear his name. Love and hate are not incompatible emotions, I reflected. And while I neither loved nor hated him, I would never be indifferent to the man who had sired me.

sparks are fragile things, and they need careful attention.

We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.

I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.

You did that when you started to care a lot-- you worried he was watching your every move to make sure he really wanted you. You could forget that maybe you were supposed to be doing that too. You forgot it wasn't just you being watched and judged and trying to pass some test.

It's weird to have him paying attention after years of not paying attention.

Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat.

Don't look. See.Don't think. Feel.Don't hear.Listen.Pay attentionMiracles really do happen every day

When you focus on your focus, you will soon become the focus.

Talk to people about what they want to hear, and they'll stay for more. Talk to them about what you want them to hear, and they'll soon turn away.

The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.

The brillant person who does not take heed is the same as the ignorant who does not know.