Quotes About Attention

I only know two kinds of audiences - one coughing, and one not coughing.

They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.

El que Todo lo Sabe ha dicho que todas las oraciones y toda la ascética, no importa por cuanto tiempo se practiquen, se cultivan en vano si el pensamiento permanece indolente o distraído.

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.

The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.

Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.

The sequence between shamatha and vipashyana makes perfect sense: first refine your powers of attention, then use them to explore and purify the mind, which can be directly examined only through first-person observation.

I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

Let go of any conceptual associations you have regarding visual impressions. Let go of preferences or judgments...Your likes and dislikes...Just be present with the shapes and colors...focusing on them with bare attention.

When attention is impaired, it detracts from everything we do, and when it is well focused, it enhances everything we do.

Within Tibetan Buddhism, shamatha practice maps on to the nine stages of attentional development wherein thoughts gradually subside as concentrative power is increased to the point at which one can effortlessly maintain single-pointed focus on a chosen object for at least four hours. The accomplishment of shamatha is accompanied by a powerful experience of bliss, luminosity, and stillness.

of him. Ainsley hadn't been able to hear

landscape effectively is one of the biggest challenges in our modern lives. When you set up too many Context Prompts, they can actually have the opposite effect—you become desensitized and fail to heed the prompt. You end up not hearing notification dings and not seeing sticky notes. It's like living next to train tracks—at first the noise of a train is deafening, then . . . what train?

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

From head to heels, you must find your center, and from this center you must extend and expand longitudinally and latitudinally. If extension is from the intelligence of the brain, expansion is from the intelligence of the heart. While doing asana, both the intellectual intelligence and the emotional intelligence have to meet and work together. Extension is attention, and expansion is awareness, I often say.

The moment you bring attention, you are creating something, and creation has life and energy.

Awareness brings life.

Even a nation brainwashed to equate artsiness with art knows when its eyelids are drooping.

You gotta do a lot more than rap. Rap is not just rap. If you don't have an image, you're not capturing nobody's attention.