Quotes About Attention

realized, happiness has four stages. To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory. Any single happy experience may be amplified or minimized, depending on how much attention

The more readily you respond to a spouse's bids for attention, the stronger your marriage—but it's easy to fall into bad habits.

If you think you are boring your audience, go slower not faster.

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

God is in the details.

Sometimes, too, she told him of what she had read, such as a passage in a novel, of a new play, or an anecdote of the upper ten that she had seen in a feuilleton; for, after all, Charles was something, an ever-open ear, and ever-ready approbation. She confided many a thing to her greyhound. She would have done so to the logs in the fireplace or to the pendulum of the clock.

Fabricando fit faber, age quod agis.

Les célébrités : s'inquiéter du moindre détail de leur vie privée, afin de pouvoir les dénigrer.

if you're not pissing someone off on social media, you're not using it aggressively enough.

BE BRIEF. Brevity beats verbosity in social media. You're competing with millions of posts every day. People make snap judgments and move right along if you don't capture their interest at a glance. My experience is that the sweet spot for posts of curated content is two or three sentences on Google+ and Facebook and 100 characters on Twitter. The sweet spot for content that you create, such as blog posts, is 500 to 1,000 words.

You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing—grinding, buffing, and polishing—not writing.

Remember that you are influencing people who are watching you.

Don't stop paying attention to a project because it gets boring.

Steve Jobs taught me that little details separate the mediocre from the excellent.

A consciência é uma voz interior que nos adverte de que alguém pode estar olhando

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

He stretched out his arms toward the sun and prayed in a tongue no villager could understand; though indeed the villagers did not try very hard to understand, since their attention was mostly taken up by the sky and the odd shapes the clouds were assuming.

Publicity is the engine of politics.

An effective introduction should accomplish three objectives. It gets attention, it surfaces a need, and it orients the audience to the body of the sermon. I tried to do that. (You can judge whether I was successful.)

Poorly prepared conclusions that wander about looking for an exit line leave a congregation looking toward the exit.

Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.

pois é óbvio que, por mais que um pensador se preocupe com a eternidade, no instante em que se dispõe a escrever os seus pensamentos deixa de estar fundamentalmente preocupado com a eternidade e volta sua atenção para a tarefa de legar aos pósteros algum vestígio deles. p28

Weder dem Vergangenen anheimfallen noch dem Zukünftigen. Es kommt darauf an, ganz gegenwärtig zu sein.

newspapers finally brought to its front page what up to then had been buried in the highly non-respectable literature of science fiction (to which, unfortunately, nobody yet has paid the attention it deserves as a vehicle of mass sentiments and mass desires).