Quotes About Attention

In 'Hakon's of Rogen's Saga', I have attempted to tell the story of a boy who lived at the end of the Viking period. It was not written for 'youth,' in the sense that I have blunted my pen before I started. I abhor those writers who have not the skill to keep the attention of adults, and therefore think themselves equipped to write for children. I have done my best, and I leave you to be my critic.

Why do we think the face has turned away which only looked elsewhere?

The more we are attentive and mindful, the more we can understand and show empathy. We need not, so therefore, bother about regret and remorse, later on. . ( "Island of regret. Island of remorse" )

I wanted to walk away in denial, watch the news and believe the cat was faking the whole thing for attention.

What do you mean, something important? It's the middle of the night! -Sandstorm

Didn't you see the bramble thicket in front of you?" "Oh, sure," Ivypool muttered. "I just walked into it for fun.

He always seemed to have one eye on the blue-eyed she-cat.

Halt still, Birkenpfote!

So?" Violet's mew interrupted his thoughts. "Are we finishing this or are you going to stare at me all day?

I must learn to focus on what I'm supposed to be doing!

I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242)

Normally I didn't see a great deal. I didn't hear a great deal either. I didn't pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn't there. Strictly speaking I believe I've never been anywhere.

To love someone is to grant him or her the gift of one's pure and undivided attention, without preconceived expectations of what the other person needs, what we imagine to be best in the situation, what particular results we want to engineer.

People who pay attention to what matters most in their lives, and who learn to ignore everything else, assume a freedom that is highly creative as well as potentially dangerous in contemporary society. Having abandoned everything of insignificance, they have nothing to lose. Apart from being faithful to their God, they no longer care what happens to them.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

Fate. She'd never been a big beliver in things like that, had always believed that solid decisions and hard work were what paid off. And they had. But, really, it was getting to the point where it felt like the universe was screaming at her to pay attention!

It is always in a time when one's attention is at the sharpest strain, when innumerable details are separately and clearly grasped by the mind, and, in a word, when the external circumstance of life is most real to us that the comic contrast between ourselves and the greatness outside us can best be appreciated.

I didn't want to be ignored. I didn't want my books to be ignored. But I didn't really care to cut such a figure either because ... well, it interferes with the business of writing.

I'd been too intent on the room to hear her coming up the stairs. Leslie said that the capacity not to notice a traditional Dutch folk dancing band walk up behind you was not a survival characteristic in the complex, fast-paced world of the modern policing environment. I'd like to point out that I was trying to give directions to a slightly deaf tourist at the time, and anyway it was a Swedish dance troupe.

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

One thing for certain, Abigail who lived up the road was going on my watch list. In fact I was going to create a watch list just so I could put Abigail at the top of it.

I surreptitiously checked to make sure she hadn't left the plates facing the wrong way again.

She got me logged in, which was a suspicous amount of help and attention from a Detective Inspector, and explained the priority codes to me. 'Officially, low means we want it within a week,' said Stephanopoulos. 'Medium is five days and high priority is three.' 'And really?' I asked. 'Today, now and 'I want it bloody yesterday.