Quotes About Attention

Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.

Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time.

Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what's in front of you

The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

We are about the hurried business of living life while missing it in the very process of living it.

People always give higher priority to newer one, whatever it is.. Relation or thing.

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

In the last decade our attention span has dropped from 13 seconds to 8. To put that in comparison a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. Don't be a goldfish.

If you want people to be able to pay attention, don't start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. Meaning before details.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Regardless of who you are, the brain pays a great deal of attention to several questions: "Can I eat it? Will it eat me?" "Can I mate with it? Will it mate with me?" "Have I seen it before?

If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

Emotions get our attention.

Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.

If you don't have a lot of energy, and you are called upon to give to your youngest several times a minute (preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say), you quickly exhaust your reservoir of good will toward your spouse.

The brain pays more attention to the gist than to the peripheral details of an emotionally charged experience...present information in a logically organized, hierarchical structure.

The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.

Parents who consistently apply attention—especially in these early years—statistically raise the happiest kids.

TV also poisons attention spans and the ability to focus, a classic hallmark of executive function. For each additional hour of TV watched by a child under the age of 3, the likelihood of an attentional problem by age 7 increased by about 10 percent. So a preschooler who watches three hours of TV per day is 30 percent more likely to have attentional problems than a child who watches no TV.

What you pay attention to is often profoundly influenced by memory. In everyday life, you use your previous experiences to predict where you should pay attention.