Quotes About Attention

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

At a fundamental level photography is much like pointing, and all of us occasionally point at things: look at that, look at that sailboat, look at that tree, etc. etc.

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

With ADD, you're curious. You're eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.

You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails!

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.

People are always gonna talk, and to tell you the truth I love it. I love the attention. I do what I do because it puts a smile on my face, and I'm the only one in the world that matters.

I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

It takes just one unattended moment for an hour to pass.