Quotes About Attention

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

In my obsession with intimacy I hadn't paid much attention to the rest of the world.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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

The fact is, passion is not a commodity, it is the by-product of doing something that really engages you. Look for what will truly hold your attention-psychologically and technically-and the passion should take of itself.

Carla, Carla, Carla. It's always about Carla.

Not that the making of tea can ever really be regarded as a petty or trivial matter and Miss Clovis did seem to have been seriously at fault.

If you're unhappy, something important is going on. When your body hurts, it needs attention. When your heart hurts, it needs just as much attention. Your mind knows what you've been taught, but your heart knows who you really are.

The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. This is accomplished only when the narrative moves steadily ahead, not when it comes to a weary standstill, overloaded with every item uncovered in the research.

Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.

The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.

Even his own speeches bored him.

Had I known that these legs were to carry a Lord Chancellor, I would have taken better care of them when I was a lad. Duke of Grafton

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

What photons aren't banged, blocked, absorbed, diverted by our distracted attention, pass on and on.

Though I do keep lists of words that catch my attention for a variety of reasons, they rarely make it into poems, not infrequently because I lose the lists.

Adopting the prose poem, allowed me to think and write more openly and broadly, and to extend and sustain a subject or object of attention more that I could in a verse poem.

Meditation is an abstraction of attention from one's self, to fix it entirely on God, it is the will insisting on His reality.

Concentration is the secret of power.

Ballplayers do not argue with the umpire so that he'll change the decision in question. They want to be on his mind when he makes the next one.

Yoga is a dance of dealing with what is, and allowing yourself to fully experience whatever you're experiencing right here, in the moment. In life, we so often resist what we don't like or don't want to do. Here, on your mat, is a safe opportunity to see what's on the other side of that. Physical asana is a measure of some higher possibility. Put your attention on what you want to have happen and be for it, and watch the magic unfold.

Principle I: We Are Either Now Here or Nowhere