Quotes About Attention

The reward for attention is always healing.

the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

You direct the will upon the mind, and use it in determining what you shall believe, what you shall think, and to what you shall give your attention.

The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the form of these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to the Formless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

Even while you paid attention to what you must do today and tomorrow, you heard the receding sound of what you had relinquished.

The irony is that the novel with its Pulitzer and its controversy has brought more attention to Mary Hallock Foote than she would ever have received otherwise.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Writing is a form attention and trains the writer's attention to find images and stories.

Every place that I have lived haunts me. I always feel like I was never attentive enough and that I missed something, when in reality it's so much more, I missed volumes.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.

if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.

until the body fails us, or pains us, or forces itself upon our attention by some little twinge or complete collapse, we tend to take for granted this first and most precious of God's gifts to man or to give it short shrift.

He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

When it comes to politics, "the facts far exceed our curiosity." "...A few executives here and there read them. The rest of us ignore them for the good and sufficient reason that we have other things to do....

We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

La atención trabaja al servicio de los esquemas que tenemos. No es libre, sino esclava de las creencias. Vemos lo que nos conviene, sacrificamos el todo, lo real, por aquellas partes o trozos de información que concuerdan con nuestra motivación básica.

al estar excesivamente atentos a los rechazos descubren "más rechazos" de lo normal:67 "el que busca, encuentra".

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You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.