Quotes About Attention

Watching the tiny shrimp and snails on the sea whips, I realized that those moments between birth and death are exactly what we have in life. If we just pay full attention to each of them as we live it, the universe will tell us what it's about. And I strongly suspected that it was as much about sea whips and snails as it was about humans.

Mindfulness encourages us to exist in the present moment.

My mother will hear you.

I CAN'T HEAR YOU, BUT YOU'D BETTER GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL BE SORRY.

Merely pursuing a goal can cause us to fail to notice what's right in front of us. That's certainly what happened to Stewart Butterfield when he had Slack under his nose. He couldn't fully appreciate its potential until he quit Glitch, closing that account and forcing him back into exploration mode.

Even when your owner is Alphabet, you have limited resources of time, money, and attention. What that means is Teller has to identify the projects that aren't going to pan out as quickly as possible. To pursue radical ideas, he has to be a radical loss-cutter. Every dollar they save by getting to no quickly is a dollar they can spend on something that could change the world.

Astro Teller also understands a subtler but no less important point, that we have a tendency, when we butt up against a monkey that is proving difficult to solve, to turn our attention to building pedestals rather than giving up. We prefer that illusion of progress to having to quit and admit defeat.

In a related vein, the third principle: whenever possible, we should seek to productively alter our own state when engaging in mental labor.

Parents and teachers often believe they have to get kids to stop moving around before they can focus and get down to work, Schweitzer notes; a more constructive approach would be to allow kids to move around so that they can focus.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.

Sound awareness is especially important, for although we easily close our mouth and eyes to what we don't want to take in, we can't really close our ears. Nature did not give us earlids. Our ears remain open and working even when we sleep. STEVEN HALPERN

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen.

I'm too professional, too much of a perfectionist to take my eye off the ball.

We're professionals, we have to deal with criticism. We get talked about a lot but we have to focus on doing our job well.

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.

Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.

If I paid more attention to my appearance, people might think that the proficiency of design industry isn't too bad in a city with such a chief executive.

I don't think people we'll miss the fact that SDC is way up there and that our profile is high.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

I don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me.