Quotes About Attention

Fame, ain't it a bitch

there's nothing like having to claw and scrape your way through a sea of molten lava to remind one to keep an eye on the details.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

All eyes turned to look at us' would be a slipshod way of putting it; eyes don't turn anyway, heads do, but as our little group joined the fringe of the assembly, there was a discernible swivelling of attention in our direction.

And death hasn't come. It never does come when you call it. It enjoys torturing us. I've been calling for it for years and it pays me no attention

Smile , nobody cares how you feel

Ringrazio Dio per avere donato alla mia generazione la sindrome da deficit d'attenzione.

Observe the world around you - everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

The beard is a male prerogative. It must be the object of scrupu­lous and continuous attention. Indeed five things are defined as 'natural' (mianl fi?ra): circumcision, mourning, shaving of the armpits, cutting of the fingernails and wearing a beard. Another hadith adds shaving of the pubic hair and the trimming of the moustache. On the other hand, men must not have tattoos.

In this set of prescriptions, the beard enjoys a privileged position. It is indeed the symbol of virility, just as the veil is the symbol of feminity. But whereas the veil, as is normal, must conceal femi­ninity, the beard is intended on the contrary to draw attention to itself and in some sense exhibit virility. The beard is a form of masculinity. There is therefore a canonical duty to wear a beard.

I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

The fact that people were attentive to his body does not compensate for their ignoring his being.

Marion, I know you think I favored Shiva Ã¢â'¬Â¦ And maybe I did. What can I say but that I'm sorry. A mother loves her children equally Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but sometimes one child needs more help, more attention, to get by in the world. Shiva needed that.

What I didn't like was how people talked to me now that I was no longer single; they were nicer. Men who never looked at me would start up a conversation, like I was suddenly some safer form of fire.

It turns out poetry does, in fact, do the thing I want it to do… it helps me return to the world, to experience it, to pay attention.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

She can look at you and make you feel like you're the only one in the world. Even if it's not true, she can make you feel that way. And with her child, it would be true. She would look at her child for as long as her child needed.

WHAT WE GAIN FROM MINDFULNESS