Quotes About Attention

Social psychologist Susan Fiske writes,"It is a simple principle: People pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power."11

Not noticing requires energy.

Beauty can blind you." "But it shouldn't make you stupid.

When you lack inner order, it is easy to be overwhelmed by a multitude of possibilities, all of which compete for attention and time—and none of which achieve the desired peace.

Discover what hinders or interrupts your attention and make a plan to reduce the distraction. Then put the plan into action.

It keeps us ever mindful of life, how it streams by in an awful rush if one is not careful to stop and listen...and honestly see. (Main character Annie Zook)

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

The teaching begins by calling upon us to develop a faculty called yoniso manasik?ra, careful attention. The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are everywhere available to us, clamoring for the sustained consideration they deserve

One-pointedness of mind explains the fact that in any act of consciousness there is a central point of focus, towards which the entire objective datum points from its outer peripheries to its inner nucleus.

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

A cat is there if you call her- if she doesn't have anything better to do.

People with nothing to say tend to go into public speaking.

Life is a free circus. All you have to do is pay attention.

One can be alive but half-asleep or half-noticing as the years fly, no matter how fully oxygenated the blood and brain or how steadily the heart beats. Fortunately, this is a reversible condition. One can learn to be alert to the extraordinary and press pause—to memorize moments of the everyday.

This is when I let each girl in on secret: It can be yours. No different from falling in love with a song, one may fall in love with a work of art and claim it as one's own. Ownership does not come free. One must spend time with it; visit at different times of the day or evening; and bring to it one's full attention. The investment will be repaid as one discovers something new with each viewing... [...] Stay awhile. Spend some time with it. Give it a proper name: Yours.

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

If it has a staple in it it doesn't get read. Never walk into a presentation without a one-page summary.

The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

Many of us make plans for our retirement years to enjoy a secure future. If a trip to Europe is planned, we investigate thoroughly before departure—yet we pay little or no attention to our eternity. Why are so many willing to gamble with something of such significance and about which they have so little information?

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.