Quotes About Attention

sometimes it seems as if the universe wants to be noticed!!!

the ability of a religious or business leader to inspire, motivate, generate interest, capture attention, depends critically on metaphor. if you actually listen to what people say, there's almost no content substance to it.

Be silent" (Matt. 20:31; Mark 10:48; Luke 18:39). It is likely that the crowd was aware that Jesus was going to Jerusalem to present himself as king, and they did not want to be delayed by something as seemingly insignificant as a blind man. But Jesus again indicated by his attention that his kingdom is made up of such people.

To whom shall I speak and give warning That they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed And they cannot listen. —JEREMIAH 6:10 NASB

The wise leader pays respectful attention to all behavior. Thus the group becomes open to more and more possibilities of behavior. People learn a great deal when they are open to everything and not just figuring out what pleases the teacher.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Haste maketh waste.

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

The amount of data in the world is doubling every few years, but our attention system, like the rest of the brain, was built to make sense of the surrounding environment as it existed ten thousand years ago.

An imbalance of these neurotransmitters is why some people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) come across as stress junkies. They have to get stressed to focus. It's one of the primary factors in procrastination. People learn to wait until the Sword of Damocles is ready to fall—it's only then, when stress unleashes norepinephrine and dopamine, that they can sit down and do the work.

With meditation, the misinformed assumption is that the practice is aimed at relaxation and bliss. It is not. It is about attention and awareness of the here and now, which is precisely what wild people need in order to survive in a state of nature.

It's just amazing the lengths people go to, to be thought of as special.

Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials.

COINCIDENCE You werent paying attention to the other half of what was going on.

Every step, every stage and every layer of every ingredient matters to us at Tres Amigos Grill.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

If you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you are doomed to become an actor.

It slowly dawned on me that, for most of the audience, the show's main attraction was neither the play nor the production but Liv.

Meanwhile, Quakers used outrageous behavior to draw more attention to their beliefs and provoke a response. A Quaker man walked into a Boston church holding a bottle in each hand, then smashed them to the floor; he shouted, "Thus will the Lord break all to pieces!" A Quaker woman stripped herself naked and paraded through the Newbury church during worship. Another Quaker woman paraded nude through the streets of Boston.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

Sophistication is the craft of subtlety that goes noticed.

Perhaps most of us spend so much of our time thinking about the past or planning for the future that there is a very real danger that we never fully come to terms with the present.

I wonder if they realize how much I notice about them They probably haven't a clue because I never look at them or show the slightest interest. But I'm very aware of everything. I remember seeing an old film once where a father says to his son: "Son when your mouth's open you're not learning anything." If that's true then I'm well on the way to becoming the world's wisest woman.