Quotes About Attention

Most people who believe they are meditating are merely thinking with their eyes closed. By practicing mindfulness, however, one can awaken from the dream of discursive thought and begin to see each arising image, idea, or bit of language vanish without a trace. What remains is consciousness itself, with its attendant sights, sounds, sensations, and thoughts appearing and changing in every moment.

looking for a path back to the present:

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.

I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.

There are days when I can hear men tying their shoe laces in the gallery.

Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!

They should have focused more on me.

When I say my mission is to make polo bigger, I don't expect it to be baseball, but for sure to bring the attention of a lot more people to the sport.

Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?

People are coming to shows on the strength of one song. I guess that's the way it goes.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.