Quotes About Attention

There were the garden shears, the knitting needles; the world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. I should have paid attention

Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart.

it was a form of compliment, she felt, since it made her the focus of his attention.

Hacer caso omiso no es lo mismo que ignorar, hay que esforzarse para ello.

The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel.

In France her tutor had once taught her that to truly fix an image in the mind to fasten it down completely so that it remained forever captive and vivid she should carefully name each aspect of the thing to herself as though she were describing it to a blind person. For ma petite such is the fickleness of the human mind that it soon lets go of whatever it sees if you would keep it you must tack it down with words. She had tried it and found that it worked on flowers rooms faces ceremonies.

Humans do not have enough mental capacity to do all the things that we think we can do. As attentional load increases, attentional capacity gradually diminishes.

Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks—in other words, for all their frantic activity, they're actually wasting time. And

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about him, and then gradually lead the conversation around to yourself-and keep it there. Scarlett would have felt some cause for alarm if Melanie had been saying: How wonderful you are!! or How do you ever think of such things? My little ole brain would bust if I even tried to think about them! But here she was, with a man at her feet, talking as seriously as if she were in church.

Captain Butler, you must not hold me so tightly. Everybody is looking. If no one were looking, would you care?

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world

My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my phone.

It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You

To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You've got my middle-C, and I would like it back....Please return Jackaby's tuning fork. He's getting even more obnoxious than usual.

Appreciate what everybody does, especially those doing what you are also doing. Don't crave for attention and fame. It will come automatically when your brand is well situated.