Quotes About Attention

Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It's sort of a blog for people with attention spans.

You do the big things by doing the little things right.

Dharma is born mysteriously out of the intersection between The Gift and The Times. Dharma is a response to the urgent—though often hidden—need of the moment. Each of us feels some aspect of the world's suffering acutely. It tears at our hearts. Others don't see it or don't care. But we feel it. And we must pay attention. We must act. This little corner of the world is ours to transform. This little corner of the world is ours to save.

The doctor was shaving this lawn as if it were a priest's chin. All

At some level the subject of any story or poem is always the reader, and the writer who ignores this does so at his or her peril.

What you intend when you approach something in the world determines, to varying extents, the degree of sensory gating that occurs as you perceive that phenomenon. Intent, task demands, cognitive template, and gating defaults all affect what you sensorally perceive when a part of the exterior world and you meet. More colloquially, all of us see what we expect to see.

I have been praised and criticised, but never ignored.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si siempre estás enfadado y triste verás como la gente no te dedica ni tiempo ni atención (Stephen Hawking)

If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.

You don't worry about dropping the eggs until you're almost home.

If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success

We're like drunks in a barroom. No one's listening because everyone is too busy thinking about what they're going to say next, and absolutely prove that the current speaker is so full of shit he squeaks.

Ladies and gentlemen, attention, please! Come in close where everyone can see! I got a tale to tell, it isn't gonna cost a dime! (And if you believe that, we're gonna get along just fine.)

Beg your pardon, the gunslinger said. I was wool-gathering.

nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

We are constantly trying to be noticed that we don't notice other people.

We grow the aspects of our lives that we feed – with energy and engagement – and choke off those we deprive of fuel. Your life is what you agree to attend to.

When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy.

Find the right balance in life. Man is body... mind... spirit. Give the right amount of attention to each.

Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.