Quotes About Attention

Bonnenburger stopped listening, and went back to his book.

While he was alive, he was impossible to ignore; once he had gone, he was impossible to imitate.

You can observe a lot just by watching. —YOGI BERRA

Human life is a kind of myopia, everyone walking around, seeing only what's in front of them, or not even that—passing each other by, embroiled in our little dramas to such an extent that we miss out on everything; making big what is small.

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.

So far our attention has focused on vector spaces. No one gets excited about vector spaces.

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Mitch opened his eyes, closed them, and then opened them wide. "There are big breasts in my face," he announced to anyone who would listen.

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

I spend the first half of my day dealing with Europe because of the time difference. Then in the evening my website gets my undivided attention.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

Don't change the channel when Rohit Sharma walks out to bat, because by the time you change it back, he'd be long gone!!

The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenly the attention was huge.

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.