Quotes About Attention

His eye contact with his partner had improved. Scoble wasn't constantly staring at and tapping on the small screen of his phone, as he was so prone to do. Glass had improved the way we related to each other.

Marketing is the price you pay for being unremarkable.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are the people you need to concentrate on.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

the neoliberal system therefore has an important and necessary by product ad politicized citizenry marked by apathy and cynicism. If electoral democracy affects little of social life it is irrational to devote much attention to it.

A year's work can be ruined quickly, sometimes within seconds, if roasting isn't done well.

meditation as a process that takes a conscious mind that gets to do a little nudging and turns it into something that can do a lot of

the thoughts are arising, and there's a strong habit of mind to be identified with them. So it's not so much they have the intent to reach out and capture us, but rather there's this very strong habitual identification. This is how we've lived our lives, and it takes practice to try and break this conditioning- to be mindful of the thought, rather than be lost in it.

We wouldn't spend so much time worrying about what other people think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

nadie, y menos en literatura, es capaz de no parpadear durante un tiempo prolongado

That something merely happens is pointless. But that something happens and a watching eye gathers it into itself is everything.

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

There are just too many school-age kids, mostly boys, being prescribed speed to make them easier to corral.

It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?

If I enter the room as you are fastening your shoe, I can say, "There will be a lovely moon tonight," and then you will call it to mind. But before I call it forth for you, you have forgotten the moon. One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.

You're always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are." p. 462 Thick to Fitz

It's an old tradition or perhaps a superstition. Never call something by its true name if you wish to avoid calling its attention to you. Perhaps

refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

One can swiftly understand that for most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.

Horns not grown, he swings his head in warning and still all take heed.