Quotes About Attention

In some Zen monasteries, gossip is defined as talking about anything not directly in one's gaze.

What the Yoga People say: None of this is banal, if only you would attend to it.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Maybe it's an attention-span thing. Music is now the backdrop to our lives rather than an event in itself. We put on a CD while we're doing something else. I can't remember the last time I put on an album and listened to it in a chair with my eyes closed.

A] ccounting results dominated most managers' attention to the point where they no longer knew, or cared, about the production, technological, and marketing determinants of competitiveness.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

even in his own house, a man cannot use his eyes without danger.

We do not merely absorb experience; we filter and select it.

Nothing is so small or trivial as to escape the attention of God's sovereign control; nothing is so great as to be beyond His power to control it.

Details are important, and God is just as sovereign over the details as He is over the so-called "big picture.

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.

There is no such thing as an attention span. People have infinite attention if you are entertaining them.

You can be passionate about anything. Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

Rankings create incentives for universities to become more like what the rankings measure. What gets measured is what gets attention. That leads to homogenization as they abandon their distinctive missions and become more like their competitors.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."7) Most organizations have multiple purposes, and that which is measured and rewarded tends to become the focus of attention, at the expense of other essential goals. Similarly, many jobs have multiple facets, and measuring only a few aspects creates incentives to neglect the rest.

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in the future, you might not want to wear so much makeup. You don't want to attract the wrong kind of attention." Maureen's shoulders tightened. "Why don't you tell them to stop looking instead of us to stop shining?

he who looks too hard for any particular thing, though he may find it, will certainly miss the most wondrous and strange things he passes, though they stare him in the face.

However, out in the world I have come to see that he who looks too hard for any particular thing, though he may find it, will certainly miss the most wondrous and strange things he passes, though they stare him in the face.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.