Quotes About Attention

Well, I don't know what to do first. I mean, should I take the piss out of you"—he points at me—"for the TV interview? Or you"—he points at James—"for the fan mail?

Excuse me, your attention please." He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged. "For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.

He foll0wed her as she crossed to the four-station apparatus. His attention was glued to her butt the whole way. realizing what he was doing, he snapped his gaze away and checked to make sure no one had noticed. Nope. They were all too busy staring at Jamie's butt.

At home, it was part of my life that Ivo was always watching me, unblinking, the slits of his pupils expanding and contracting as a cat's do when it considers whether or not to pounce on its prey.

If I'd thought Ulfrikr wee serious in his complaints," Ulfbjorn said, "I would have told you. I wanted to spare you worrying about something that isn't worth your attention." Frithulf snorted. "Spend some more time with Isolfr and you'll realize just what a lost cause that is. You can't spare him worry, Ulfbjorn. All it does is make him worry about why you're sparing him.

Ivo sat and listened, the look in his blue eyes enrapt and I knew, though I could hardly believe it, that he was not bored or uninterested, that to him I mattered as I had never mattered to anyone in my life.

He'd learned the key thing about any serious conversation with Felix, which was that you couldn't let him distract you.

Good night. 'A thousand times good night.' That's Shakespeare, although why Juliet says it a thousand times, I don't know. Probably because Romeo wasn't listening the first time. Men should wake up and pay attention.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles

When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.

I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).

keeping their gimlet eyes on one's affairs...

All I can ever see is you. Tell me you see me too. - Nolan from Let Me List The Ways

Alex Korb writes in "The Grateful Brain," "Gratitude can have such a powerful impact on your life because it engages your brain in a virtuous cycle. Your brain only has so much power to focus its attention. It cannot easily focus on both positive and negative stimuli." Literally, you can't be grateful and anxious at the same time. Once again, the threat system in our amygdala is overridden.

The most important thing to determine is what to do right now. Instead of scanning the horizon of your life, looking for things that need to be done, concentrate on the task before you

Busca la quietud y pon atención a mi Presencia.

Do not judge others who hesitate in trembling fear before an act that would be easy for you. If each of My children would seek to please Me above all else, fear of others' judgments would vanish, as would attempts to impress others. Focus your attention on the path just ahead of you and on the One who never leaves your side.

Listen to Me above the clamor of voices trying to distract you.

Ask My Spirit to help you fix your gaze on Me. Invite Him to alert you whenever you get overly focused on problems so you can redirect your attention to Me.

Invite My Spirit to alert you when you are overly focused on your problems and to redirect your attention to Me.

Paying attention also requires inhibiting certain responses when making the above choices. This involves inhibiting the following: Acting until information has been processed Speaking out one's thoughts (This involves internalizing speech or "talking inside your head" without actually speaking one's thoughts out loud unless that is the desired thing to do!)

Learn to know your particular balance between being overstimulated/understimulated and overwhelmed/underwhelmed.

When I'm inside my house, it's like I'm right in the middle of a busy street. Each noise from down the block throws me off. If I have a thought and then the phone rings, I'm lost. Each tick of the clock drives me over the edge. People say, 'Just ignore it,' but I can't block it out.

No matter when or where, he was the only person in the world who could steal his gaze like that.