Quotes About Attention

Who needs to hear today that they are not invisible or unimportant to God? — Mary Kay Moody —

God cares about every detail of our lives. — Kay E. Combs

My research indicates that there are five basic languages of love: Words of affirmation—using positive words to affirm the one you love Gifts—giving thoughtful gifts to show you were thinking about someone Acts of service—doing something that you know the other person would like Quality time—giving your undivided attention Physical touch—holding hands, kissing, embracing, putting a hand on the shoulder, or any other affirming touch

Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting.

Cuando me siento con mi esposa y le presto veinte minutos de toda mi atención y ella hace lo mismo para mí, nos damos veinte minutos de vida. Nunca más tendremos esos veinte minutos; nos damos nuestras vidas el uno al otro. Esto es un poderoso comunicador emocional de amor.

you spend more time on Facebook than you do listening to each other, you end up more concerned about your hundred "friends" than about your spouse.

You can't just skip the boring parts. Of course I can skip the boring parts. How do you know they're boring if you don't read them? I can tell. Then you can't say you've read the whole play. I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Who knows? she said. Maybe you can't.

Multitasking is a lie

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do." —John Carmack

live in sound, always in noise. Perhaps because it is so constant, the art of listening to them falls off, and so many things they say are not heard, are swallowed in the overall

The ego is a master illusionist, and one of the ways it diverts your attention, from the moment you're born, is by giving you — and this calls for another drum roll, please — problems.

That's what tyrants can do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

I like to watch Trump, because he just takes my mind off stuff. No matter what happens personally, there's this much greater disaster taking place.

We define Christian spiritual direction, then, as help given by one Christian to another which enables that person to pay attention to God's personal

Le mot inducteur [est] l'image première productrice d'images secondaires. Si l'on suit cette image comme système d'analyse, l'analyse s'ordonne d'elle-même. Au contraire, faute d'attention à cette image inductrice, des pages entières paraissent obscures, pauvres, froides. Elles sont inertes. On n'a pas épousé leur courant de vie.

And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should. As for Raoul, he saw nothing either; for, when he had Christine in front of him, nothing interested him that happened behind. Chapter

There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.

Rule Number One is this: If you're open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you're defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.

If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can. As

Very few vampires bother to sleep in a coffin, if you must know. Lugging one around everywhere you go is inconvenient, and it almost always attracts the wrong kind of attention. I did know a vampire who had one, but it was mostly a kinky sex thing for her.)

The habit of reading is absolutely critical today, particularly for Christians. As television turns our society into an increasingly image dominated culture, Christians must continue to be people of the Word. When we read, we cultivate a sustained attention span, an active imagination, a capacity for logical analysis and critical thinking, and a rich inner life. Each of these qualities, which have proven themselves the essential to a free people is under assault in a TV dominated culture.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.

Sometimes when all our attention is thus focused on memory, our eyes, unguided by ourselves, will distinguish from a mass of detail some single object, presenting it with a clarity never achieved by concentration.