Quotes About Attention

I notice things.

I'm done with smart machines. I want a machine that's attentive to my needs. Where are the sensitive machines?" —Tweet available at dig_natRT @tigoe via @ramonapringle

I'll be washed and ironed. I'll be washed and ironed and starched.

I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.

Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. 'You must pay attention to me,' he urged. 'If something happens you will be able to write the book that I may never get written. The idea is very simple, so simple that if you are not careful you will forget it. It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you dare let yourself forget that.

Doctor Parcival began to plead with George Willard. "You must pay attention to me," he urged. "If something happens perhaps you will be able to write the book that I may never get written. The idea is very simple, so simple that if you are not careful you will forget it. It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you date let yourself forget.

meditation elevates a person's base level of focus. By focus, I mean the ability to attend to what's relevant in a given situation.

unbalanced view of the nature of sensory experience.

To be hoisted onto laps, pinched by incredulous strangers, to occasionally get my curls tugged, to be cooed at, photographed, and quoted -all this was part of the job.

You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is. [...] Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

Bodhidharma said, "In order to see a fish you must watch the water.

So try always to keep the right posture, not only when you practice zazen, but in all your activities. Take the right posture when you are driving your car, and when you are reading. If you read in a slumped position, you cannot stay awake long. Try. You will discover how important it is to keep the right posture. This is the true teaching.

The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing. This is the way of practice moment after moment.

Clothes are like children.... the smaller they are the more care they need

The eyes of women followed his progress with silent homage, the more candid among them bestowing that passing stupefaction which can be neither feigned nor hidden.

You know exactly how to dress me up, Daddy." "I do, boy. And I love that everyone is looking." "You also love that I'm yours.

Nadie le decía: Toñito, no juegues con la soga.

Boy with the name and face I don't remember, you can stop shouting now, I can still hear you.

One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.

The problem, says Anderson, is that managers tend to remember the most memorable events of a match rather than the most important ones.

There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.

This attitude means you haven't met a girl worthy of your attention. You'll want to get caught if the right girl comes along.

all these words, this laughter, these marks of attention, helped to lift me back in the saddle, to hold my horse's bridle with a firm grip.