Quotes About Attention

L'ufficiale, mentre Daisy parlava, la fissava come tutte le ragazzine desidarano essere fissate una volta o l'altra [...]. Lui si chiamava Jay Gatsby [...].

If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn't hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.

Here kitty, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty. --Dodge

what determined people's happiness wasn't their physical conditions or capabilities but what they paid attention to, what they emphasized, what they accomplished within the possibilities available to them.

La mauvaise musique est jouée tous les jours, la bonne ignorée.

Blondes are like left-handed athletes, they all get a second look even if they don't deserve one.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.

It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He

Now, watch these matters closely for I wish to see this room later through your wisdom.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

Paul sat back. He had used the questions and hyperawareness to do what his mother called "registering" the person. He had Kynes now—tone of voice, each detail of face and gesture.

The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

Neki ljudi nikad ništa ne zapaze. Život im se tek doga?a. Provedu ga u ne?emu što je tek malo više od neke vrste tupog trajanja, te srdito i ozloje?eno odbijaju sve što bi ih moglo izvesti iz tog lažnog spokojstva.

Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.

Looking back on it, I realize I did the right thing instinctively. You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres solo prestaban atención a las máquinas, con la esperanza de que ellas les hicieran libres. Pero esto solo permitió que otros hombres con máquinas los esclavizaran

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing. There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader.

She saw and yet did not see the evening's banked colors across meadow and river. She heard and yet did not hear the

Be deaf! You do not need to hear or, hearing, you do not need to remember. How soothing it is to forget. And how dangerous