Quotes About Attention

Life is sacred—for everyone, not just monks and mystics. But to feel it and see it, there are things you can do, things that bring out the wonder and connectedness of everything in life. It begins with your intention, looking in. And it's furthered by your attention, looking out.

People that complain often are usually trying to get attention. The stems from the fact they're displeased with their accomplishments and think the lack of same is the fault of others.

to gain attention, wear a lightly but attractively colored chiffon scarf; if you wish to appear as if you weigh less, wear a size larger than your actual one.

As an added benefit, having a student stand up and address the room will quickly bring all other distracted chit-chat to an end, since people rarely want to be rude to their peers.

Concentrating to within an inch of your life on the pre-flight safety briefing, to compensate for those ignoring it.

The fact that the bodies weren't my first concern–-pissing and bodies were, in that order—-helped too. Killers have different priorities.

Most remarkable of all, of the album's eight tracks 'Come All Ye' is the only song that has a chorus that can easily be joined by an audience. The rest wander deeper into their respective narratives; unlike a pop song with refrains, hooks and totemic, easily assimilable recapitulations, these songs hold the attention with the persistence of a tale-spinner.

If I could distill this into a formula for weathering disasters, it would be this: prepare, pay attention, then act, or react, as the situation demands.

I like audiences to crane their necks.

Nobody cares what the entrée is..... if the appetizer is turds in a blanket!

What we present first changes the way people experience what we present to them next.

When the newspaper detailed the suicide of a young person, it was young drivers who then piled their cars into trees, poles, and embankments with fatal results; but when the news story concerned an older person's suicide, older drivers died in such crashes. l advised, then, to take special care in our travels at these times.

In large measure, who we are with respect to any choice is where we are, attentionally, in the moment before the choice.

the main purpose of speech is to direct listeners' attention to a selected sector of reality. Once that is accomplished, the listeners' existing associations to the now-spotlighted sector will take over to determine the reaction. For

The press may not be successful most of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about.

You use your cuts to get people to swing attention to the parts of your message you really want them to focus on.

they described how they were able to draw website visitors' attention to the goal of comfort merely by placing fluffy clouds on the background wallpaper of the site's

In the realm of self-correction mechanisms, then, we can find another source of validation for a core tenet of pre-suasion: immediate, large-scale adjustments begin frequently with practices that do little more than redirect attention.69

La respuesta tiene que ver, en parte, con un principio de la comunicación que, aunque es esencial, generalmente no se tiene demasiado en cuenta: aquello que mostramos primero modifica la forma en la que la gente percibe lo que presentamos después.

I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.

In order to generate high profits and share prices, they have to attract consumers rather than serve citizens. This has transformed journalists from investigators and analysts offering serious news to "content providers" competing for attention.

Having a self-published book is akin to having a newborn baby - if you don't give it the loving care and attention it deserves, it will die.

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.