Quotes About Attention

One ignored the mundane at one's peril.

There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse they seek.

As in all of these disciplines, there's one key ingredient that helps keep the religion out – fun. Religion, by nature, demands your serious attention. It is the anti-play. Capon writes: For while it is a truism that nothing that is fun can be done without some measure of discipline, it is practically an eternal truth that nothing that calls for discipline will be kept at very long (or very well) if it is not fun.44

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

The way our group or class does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus to prescribe the directions and limits of observation and memory. What is strange or foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the groups) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect.

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to "see the forest on account of the trees.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as he the disease.

Take heed of loving me.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

Your life is too valuable to waste being distracted.

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

What controls your attention, controls your life