Quotes About Attention

Again, I noticed and again, I didn't really care. But he did make more of an impact than the snow.

It's David!" Ellie said, throwing up her arms and breaking Stevie's concentration on Hayes and his orbit. "David, David, David!" As David David David came into the yurt

she was suddenly as intently conscious of that particular moment, of herself and her own movement. She noticed her gray linen skirt, the rolled sleeve of her gray blouse and her naked arm reaching down for the paper. She felt her heart stop causelessly in the kind of gasp one feels in moments of anticipation.

Isn't it odd? When a politician or a movie star retires, we read front page stories about it. But when a philosopher retires, people do not even notice it." "They do, eventually.

Noticia es lo que excite más al mayor número de gente. Lo que les va a impresionar y dejar atontados. Cuanto más atontados, mejor, siempre que haya suficientes»

no speech is ever considered, but only the speaker.

Now you see, Dr. Stadler, how unfortunate it is if you allow yourself to be disturbed by political matters, which you have always considered unworthy of your attention and knowledge. You see, it is not Mr. Mouch's function to ask permissions.

fastidiousness

Wearing the hijab has given me freedom from constant attention to my physical self. Because my appearance is not subject to public scrutiny, my beauty, or perhaps my lack of it, has been removed from the realm of what can legitimately be discussed.

I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

in the state capital. But the years had also taken their toll. Some of it was just a function of my getting older, I suppose, for if you are paying attention

I learned to respect the nuts and bolts of politics, the attention to detail required, the daily grind that might prove the difference between winning and losing. It confirmed, too, what I already new about myself: that whatever preferences I had for fair play, I didn't like to lose.

What I knew was that he was a spectacle, and in the United States of America in 2011, that was a form of power. Trump trafficked in a currency that, however shallow, seemed to gain more purchase with each passing day. The same reporters who laughed at my jokes would continue to give him airtime. Their publishers would vie to have him sit at their tables. Far from being ostracized for the conspiracies he'd peddled, he in fact had never been bigger.

Dreams are like public service announcements from your soul. The only way to get past them is to pay attention to what they're telling us.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship

Profesorii, p?rinÈ›ii È™i psihologii au observat o sc?dere abrupt? a capacit??ii de a p?stra atenÈ›ia, atât în rândul adulÈ›ilor, cât È™i al copiilor. Un studiu din 2015 a constatat c? durata medie de atenÈ›ie a adulÈ›ilor a sc?zut de la 12 la 8 secunde, adic? mai puÈ›in decât poate fi atent un caras auriu.

If there was one thing I understood about God, it was that he was not good, and if he was good, he was too powerless to deserve our attention.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.

Pay attention to your dreams; when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

I do understand that they fall when I'm least able to pay attention because poems fall not from a tree, really, but from the richly pollinated boughs of an ordinary life, buzzing, as lives do, with clamor and glory. They are easy to miss but everywhere: poetry just is, whether we revere it or try to put it in prison. It is elementary grace, communicated from one soul to another.

It's funny how people don't give that much thought to what kids want, as long as they're being quiet.

The eye sees what it cares enough to see.

A blown brain will reach for any sideshow to dodge the main event.