Quotes About Attention

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence—unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties.

Take your time and do it right, even if it takes another half second.

Whenever the citizens fix their attention on one issue to the exclusion of others, the situation is ripe for scalawags, demagogues, ambitious men on horseback.

Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence—unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties. But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Maybe the whole world held together only when you kept your attention centered on it and believed in it. If you let discrepancies creep in, you began to doubt and it began to go to pieces.

Peace" is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence

She often found herself caught in a rapture for minutes at a time, sometimes longer. But someone observed that she was never enraptured while she was cooking breakfast. If she were, she might burn it. Eternity can dovetail into our practical lives. It's possible for us to manage the toast and the rapture.

He had decided that what was going on was that everybody was very carefully avoiding paying attention to what was going on.

Miracles, like all other things, he said, come out of the Void for no reason and return to the Void for no reason. Wait. Be patient. Pay attention to the little details. And see what comes out of the Void next.

Obviously, in the new science or new idiocy of lepufulogy we are approaching the area of dream and myth; however, as James Joyce once remarked, since we already spend one third of our lives there, we ought to give that half-world some serious attention.

READING NEWS HEADLINES CAUSES BRAIN TO SHRINK: SCIENTISTS FIND HAIKU ALSO RISKY

You become a leading Expert by acting as if everybody else's opinion deserves no attention and never even deserves the courtesy of an answer.

Daily practice of yoga, which often correlates with improved health, decreases the total amount of beta activity/outer directed attention/sympathetic nervous system function and conversely increases alpha or theta wave activity/inner directed attention/parasympathetic nervous system functions.

Hypnosis, whatever positive suggestions it may implant in the cortex to transduce into neurochemical immunological boosts, also begins with telling the patient to close her or his eyes and become more relaxed. Both closing the eyes and relaxing move the patient from beta waves/outer attention/sympathetic system to alpha-theta waves/inner attention/parasympathetic system.

Is there some connection between waking up in the mystic sense, and learning to read (or to see paintings, say) in an alert, non-mechanical way? One Zen master, when asked what Zen is, always replied with the single word, Attention. What the hell did he mean?

The magician knows that in an information-overload situation, spectators only see what they came prepared to see.

Mary sat, quiet and attentive and blank. It wasn't like talking to a dumb seventh-grader, it was like talking to a pancake.

We need to focus not only on what we provide to the customer, but on how we provide it.

Can we come up with a phrase or two that realistically describe how we should treat customers? Yes. Here are two short phrases that fit the bill. The customer always deserves to be treated as if he or she is important and his or her opinions, needs, and wants are worth your attention. The customer deserves to receive maximum effort of those serving him or her, even when

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But she didn't listen, she was in the bathroom, she was getting dressed, she was putting on make-up, she was getting ready. Getting ready.

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention.