Quotes About Attention

If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be contented, then, in everything, with being a philosopher; and if you with to seem so likewise to any one, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you.

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

the most famous people in the world today don't address the world's most pressing needs. Rather, they distract us from them.They provide amusement, not sustenance. They

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

A man is likely to mind his own business, when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his ownmeaningless affairs and by minding other people's business.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. This

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

don't call me stupid without calling me stupid and think I'd bee too stupid to notice!

Serial murders are a bit like natural disasters: in the scheme of things they are quite rare, but when they happen they demand our attention. They interest us for several reasons, but especially because they are so dramatically threatening, and they profoundly challenge our sense of our own everyday safety. [Todd R. Clear, Foreword]

Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them.

Si je m'intéresse à ce que pensent les gens cons, je n'aurai plus de temps à ce que pensent les gens intelligents.

Se mi interesso a quello che pensano i cretini, non avrò più tempo per quello che pensano le persone intelligenti.

You do many things at once; you read, listen to the radio, talk, smoke, eat, drink. You are the consumer with the open mouth, eager and ready to swallow everything—pictures, liquor, knowledge. This lack of concentration is clearly shown in our difficulty in being alone with ourselves. To sit still, without talking, smoking, reading, drinking, is impossible for most people. They become nervous and fidgety, and must do something with their mouth or their hands.

Lack of concentration makes one tired, while concentration wakes one up.

Buddhist concept of mindfulness means precisely a way of being in which one is fully concentrated on everything one is doing at any given moment, whether it is planting a seed or cleaning a room or eating. Or as a Zen master has said: "When I sleep I sleep, when I eat I eat …" 10.

Spraggett was never one to use a single sensational headline when two or three woud suffice.

Spraggett was never one to use a single sensational headline when two or three would suffice.

We interrupt this program for breaking news: Has anyone seen this nobody?

Give your ears, hear the sayings, Give your heart to understand them; It profits to put them in your heart; Woe to him who neglects them!

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

We are so used to the elephant in the room that sometimes we forget it is there

Concentration attracts luck factor.

Just trusting the soul cannot lead you to higher consciousness. You have to pay attention for the beautification of your heart.

Quantum mechanics tells us that every feeling is a collapse of some wave functions due to the interference of a matrix of attention functions.