Quotes About Attention

We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift.

Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.

Miss O'Hara - I must tell you something. I - I love you!' 'Um?' said Scarlett absently.

When you've been talked about as much as I have, you'll realize how little it matters.

When you're being looked at you can't look. To look is to feel curious, to be interested, to lower yourself. No one you look at is worth it.

Anything morally worthy in ourselves is corrupted if we wish to admire ourselves. And someone else remarked that there are no mirrors in heaven. There couldn't be, for the mirror is the symbolic antithesis of a glad, free offering of our full attention to

But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement itself; and it separates us too much from the common run of men in a function which is nearly always public, and in which either friendship or formality presides.

In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

In the same way that the stewards on the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital. Sometimes it's easier that way. Because although there was little I could do about the huge hole, it was within my power to empty an asthray.

worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

Omissions are not accidents.