Quotes About Attention

He felt eyes on him. He didn't turn to see if they were Jane's.

I am but a petty godling, it's true, but I am the god of the dark depths of passion, the sea that draws and gives back life. Tell you don't crave the attention.

The crippled Raven found Will in his new room and seemed well pleased with the wider window, for all it must rattle at the glass for attention. Will didn't think this typical behavior in a raven, but perhaps the pampered birds at the Tower had been hand-fed into audacity.

She had long since stopped finding it ironic or eerie that the city at large paid no attention to a murder, whether the victim was a prominent citizen or a guttersnipe.

Pure in love, pure in attention, pure of heart. The other is no matter. Like thee and me, 'tis but a metaphor given flesh.

Selene, waiting on Her attention, stared through the tall glass plates, tail lashing, ears still laid flat, and willed herself to clam. Fear-and-fight were not her friends. They were th animal, the instinct that made her a superlative warrior. But the threat had been left behind on the ground, and Selene was in the Tower, in Her presence. Safe.

Whiskey pricked up his ears, arching his neck, knowing himself displayed.

She glanced over her shoulder, pinning the hapless patrolman on a needle-pointed gaze, wondering which of her notories occupied his attention.

If I turned my head to look at this woman on the street, it would be because of her hearing-because she is tall, and stern as the iron color of her hair. It would be because of the stubborn military shoulders and the chipped flint of an unmistakably Iroquois nose, the crows's-feet at the corners of her eyes. I might not even notice the glittering steel of her left hand until she moved into my line of sight.

Caitlin Conn was a lousy liar. In her father's house, refusing to lie had been rebellion, and under those circumstances the small rebellions kept one sane. You asserted any control you could; you defended any part of your identity you could own. Lying would have been safer, it would have diverted Alasdair's attention.

Conversation was more interesting than one man droning on and on. It held the audience better. And Danilaw would have used puppets if he thought it would get his cabinet to pay attention.

She stroked her chin with a thumb and a forefinger. No wonder people were staring; the effect was distracting.

She catches my gaze when I would have turned away.

Funny how he could always tell exactly where Michelangelo's attention was, even when Angelo was pretending it was somewhere else.

was so attached to the problem that I wasn't giving any energy or attention to the solution.

Somebody embroidered the doily. Somebody waters the plant, or oils it, maybe. Somebody arranges the rows of cans so that they softly say: esso—so—so—so to high-strung automobiles. Somebody loves us all.

One study has found that people who tend to focus their minds more on what they are currently doing have longer telomeres than people whose minds tend to wander more.5 Other studies find that taking a class that offers training in mindfulness or meditation is linked to improved telomere maintenance.6

The iPhone mind-wandering study showed that when people are not thinking about what they're doing, they're just not as happy as when they're engaged. As

She had this one limitation, his darling Lois; she couldn't look on her own eyes, had no idea what she was, resented almost his attention being so constantly fixed on something she wasn't aware of.

Never hide your light, for how else is a man to notice you? Your spark, your fire, is your most cherished possession.

That was of no consequence now, but you don't easily forget the people you grew up with, and she made a point of listening carefully to him

Those who walk with their heads in the air usually don't see the shit on the ground until they tread in it.

Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you.

He watched her hurry off to her car and back down the driveway too fast--as always--cutting the wheel too soon as usual. "Mailbox!" he yelled when she was still ten feet from slamming on the brakes. She gazed at him with surprise, her hazel eyes holding his for a moment, then she laughed and continued out of the driveway on a safer path.