Quotes About Attention

Cruz and Jeff looked at her. She did not appear to notice. Her attention was on the cavern.

The problem with becoming a public intellectual is that over time you grow more and more public but less and less intellectual.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

But practicalities have to be tended to, even during emergencies.

It's amazing that God lavishes so much attention to detail in a body that won't last, but He does that everywhere: in that tiny, delicate, finely veined alpine flower that quivers in the mountain chill and then fades and dies, as well as in my body. I am a wonder!

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it's never a forgone conclusion that anyone is actually going to see your work, no matter how good it is. And if nobody reads it, it doesn't exist.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

One friend experienced enormous dukkha when she realized that men no longer looked at her when she walked down the street.

Don't follow the passage of air all the way in and out of the body, but rather keep your attention focused on the site where you feel your breath most clearly.)

To reveal someone's beauty is to reveal their value by giving them time, attention, and tenderness. To love is not just to do something for them but to reveal to them their own uniqueness, to tell them that they are special and worthy of attention.

Children like Claudia, children who flee from relationships into a world of their own and who are unable to communicate verbally, need to be understood in a special way. It takes time and a great deal of attention, as well as wisdom and help from professionals, in order to learn how to interpret their cries and their body language which reveal the desires and needs they cannot name.

Dear Daddy, Do you observe the postmark?

KING VIDOR: When sound first came in, that's when popcorn and all the drinks started and necking in the theater started, because you could turn away and do all sort of things and you could still hear. You wouldn't miss anything, you know. The sound would take care of it. In silent pictures, you had to pay attention the whole time. You had to sit there and try to figure it out.

She doesn't have the reservoir of space to take anything else into her brain.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

The main thing is to pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.

It says the American people are full of goodness and wisdom, and you just have to be paying attention. And sometimes that's hard to do when you're inside this bubble, but this was a little portal through which I could remind myself of that every day. The letters are beautiful, aren't they? -Obama

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.

Considering all that competes for your time and attention, if you don't actively take steps to simplify your life and carve out what I call "breathing space," you will most certainly find yourself in a perpetual state of overwhelm.

Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.