Quotes About Attention

an old Zen proverb: "When the master points at the Moon, many people never see it at all, they only look at the master.

Look, don't see, listen, don't hear. The more you engage, the longer you survive.

Her breasts rested on the edge of the table.

There's a difference between hearing and listening. And that's our problem. I doubt if Westwood even knows what he's got. He didn't listen, and his notes don't seem to mean much. It's going to be like picking a lock with spaghetti.

Her laugh was great. I wanted to look at her nameplate over her shirt pocket. But I didn't want her to think I was looking at her breasts. I remembered them resting on the edge of the table when she took my photograph. I looked. Nice breasts. Her name was Roscoe. She glanced around quickly and moved closer to the bars. I sipped coffee.

watching, both

Reacher nodded. He said, "Anything else you can tell me?" Mortimer went quiet so long Reacher thought maybe he had fallen into a geriatric coma. Or died. But then he moved. He raised the same bent and bony hand. This time not a warning. This time an appeal for attention. Like a comedian calming a crowd, ahead of a punch line.

The woman bent decorously at the knees and laid her briefcase and her stack of papers on the floor. Ratcliffe took a step forward and said, "You three were brought here under false pretenses, obviously. But we didn't want a lot of fanfare. A little misdirection was better. We want to avoid attention, if we can. At least at the beginning." And

Personas inteligentes que trabajen duro, presten atención y sean capaces de pensar de modo diferente.

They looked at Neagley. Dark hair, dark eyes, a tan. A good-looking woman. She smiled at them. Her forearms were on the table. Reacher noticed her nails. They were shiny with clear polish, and neatly filed. Even on the right, which she must have done left-handed. She wouldn't use a nail salon. She couldn't bear her hands to be touched. She looked at one guy, and then the other. The

If I visit and he doesn't know I've visited, have I really visited at all? It's self-indulgent to come here just to make myself feel like a good wife.

People see, but they don't look.

presence. No

A guy who was taught the front-sight mantra might focus so hard he could lose his peripheral vision.

And I wanted that - to come first in somebody's life. Isn't that what we all want?

Parades always made me cringe—the sight of so many people lockstepping along, chests out, elbows pumping, seemed to denote an unearned pride or a humiliating need for attention. I have generally found something else to do, if any parades were nearby.

I am influenced by every second of my waking hour.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

We are what we do with our attention."64

An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them.

Setea dependentului de a pl?cea const? în dorinÈ›a incontrolabil? de a da f?r? a primi, iar r?spunsul pozitiv al celor care primesc aceast? atenÈ›ie reprezint? doza.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves