Quotes About Attention

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They're too busy staring at one another to turn full attention on me.

There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ? unless it is a woman.

Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristic of quality.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

Some things you miss because they're so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don't see because they're so huge.

Familiarity can blind you

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it. They probably think what they hear is unimportant but it never is.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristics of Quality

You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristic of quality.

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else.

Normally screws are so cheap and small and simple you think of them as unimportant. But now, as your Quality awareness becomes stronger, you realize that this one, individual, particular screw is neither cheap nor small nor unimportant. Right now this screw is worth exactly the selling price of the whole motorcycle, because the motorcycle is actually valueless until you get the screw out. With this reevaluation of the screw comes a willingness to expand your knowledge of it.

Some things you miss because they're so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don't see because they're so huge. We were both looking at the same thing, seeing the same thing, talking about the same thing, thinking about the same thing, except he was looking, seeing, talking and thinking from a completely different dimension.

You don't count. You're not what they're looking for. You're not on TV.

I break open a lunch of Swiss cheese, pepperoni and crackers. I cut up the cheese and then the pepperoni in careful, neat slices. The silence allows you to do each thing right.

poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

when you think categorically, you have trouble seeing how similar or different two things are. If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.

Lots of work has examined the genes involved, most broadly showing that variants that produce lowered dopamine signaling (less dopamine in the synapse, fewer dopamine receptors, or lower responsiveness of these receptors) are associated with sensation seeking, risk taking, attentional problems, and extroversion. Such individuals have to seek experiences of greater intensity to compensate for the blunted dopamine signaling.

If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures.