Quotes About Attention

Shaking herself, Petunia looked around. Several of her sisters had been talking to her, but she hadn't heard them. "And that answers our questions about why he gave himself up," Poppy was saying, a smile turning up one corner of her mouth as she looked at Petunia. "Now if everyone could please avoid saying his name [Oliver], so that Petunia doesn't drift off again...?

Kestilan?" There was that name again. Oliver fought down an irrational surge of jealousy for this mysterious being who took up so much of Petunia's attention.

If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling."

Thinks that twitter is like facebook's slutty cousin. It does everything dumb and whore-ish you're too responsible to do

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

If we have no place to go where we can escape that reaction to our bodies, where is it that we're not forced? The idea that these crimes are escapable is the blind optimism of men who don't understand what it means to live in a body that attracts a particular kind of attention with magnetic force.

We live in a culture right now that pits girls against each other. We are brought up socially to be in competition with each other -who has the best body, more boyfriends, better clothes. And this kind of competition can be devastating on female friendships because it emphasizes a mentality that there isn't enough to go around, Enough love. Enough attention. Enough success. But there is . There is enough to share with your girlfriends.

Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.

Ficar concentrado significa viver plenamente no presente, agora, aqui, e não pensar na coisa seguinte a ser feita enquanto estou fazendo outra coisa neste instante.

Si uno está concentrado, poco importa qué está haciendo; las cosas importantes, tanto como las insignificantes, toman una nueva dimensión de la realidad, porque están llenas de la propia atención.

Estar concentrado significa vivir plenamente en el presente, en el aquí y el ahora, y no pensar en la tarea siguiente mientras estoy realizando otra. Es innecesario decir que la concentración debe ser sobre todo practicada por personas que se aman mutuamente. Deben aprender a estar el uno cerca del otro, sin escapar de las múltiples formas acostumbradas.

Der Autor (...) sieht, daß die Zeitgenossen, störrisch wie die Esel, rückwärts laufen, einem klaffenden Abgrund entgegen, in dem Platz für sämtliche Völker Europas ist. Und so ruft er, wie eine Reihe Anderer vor ihm und außer ihm: Achtung, beim Absturz linke Hand am linken Griff!

Kui oled surnud, oled kole tähtis – kui elad, ei hooli sust keegi.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal - no one will see it. But when a button is missing - everyone sees that.

THE ADMIRALTY'S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable.

You don't pay much attention to the construction of ships?" "No, as long as they float; if they sink, I get out.

closer, and to be concentrating on Whitehall.

Laurel watched his lips intently as he spoke. He thought it was pretty amazing that she knew what he was saying just from reading his lips. But it also meant a lot of times her eyes were on his mouth, not meeting his gaze. Which gave him the sneaky ability to watch her more closely than he could anyone else, without her thinking he was staring.

I'm listening. I listen with my ears and look with my eyes. I can't do two things at once and really concentrate on them. Right now, I'm listening to your voice.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

It evidently made no difference whether I was there to look after things or not.

This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.

Just as she goes and watch for that no-good Minerva. Keep well inside of that and outside the sand-spits.