Quotes About Attention

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me.

I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.

Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig.

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

Sicilee and Maya are both convinced that once they catch Cody Lightfoot's attention they are as good as on their first date with him, if not actually engaged.

before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.

For any kind of mindfulness training to work for you, you have to be present in your life. That includes being present—mind and body—when your emotions are stirring things up. That's when you want to be clear about your thoughts, and clear about what you see, hear, and feel. That's when mindfulness really becomes your greatest friend.