Quotes About Attention

One reason listening can be exhausting for introverts is that we pay attention. We listen hard. Words enter our ears and then go straight to our busy, whirring brains to be processed, considered, and analyzed.

I think one of the worst mistakes we make is investing so much significance in details of our lives that don't matter at all. We can just choose.

The Guest Speaker I have to keep myself awake While the guest speaker speaks. For his and for procedure's sake I have to keep myself awake. However long his talk might take (And, Christ, it feels like weeks) I have to keep myself awake While the guest speaker speaks.

The one voice I would hear even in death. A rotting corpse in the ground, I would sit up and take notice.

But you're worried I'll get in trouble?" I try not to show how much this pleases me. I've managed to ignore him for days now and here I sit. Lapping up his attention like a neglected puppy. My voice takes on an edge. "Why do you care? I've ignored you for days." His smile fades. He looks serious, mockingly so. "Yeah. You got to stop that.

Where did you sleep?" His mouth curled in a cocky grin at this question. "Where do you think?" ... He turned his attention back to the wood and answered his own question, sounding a little bored all of a sudden. "On the couch.

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Always remember that if this were not the Lord's work, the adversary would not pay attention to us.

The more you meditate, the more you pay attention. The more you pay attention, the more you see the world as it truly is. Everyone is a teacher. Everyone is part of your Sangha.

Cuando consideras que un símbolo, o un lugar, o un momento, o una persona o un acto es sagrado, entonces toda tu atención deja de estar dividida y se integra.

What we are looking for is what is looking.

Just as the sun shines on all the trees and flowers as if each were the only one on earth, so does God care for all souls in a special manner.

And who cares about cold cases? Counterterrorism has been the focus since 9/ 11, and the Cold Case Squad doesn't have the juice.

I said, "Juvenile delinquents eat chocolate cake, so chocolate cake must cause juvenile delinquency," but nobody listened to me. I wasn't on TV.

Den Blick in die Welt kann man mit einer Zeitung versperren.

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

Observation is a dying art.

Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.

Psychology of small things rules.

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The physical affirmative should be met by a mental negative." Nor should the sufferer ever admit to himself that he feels pain, for experience shows that one who pays attention to a pain increases it by autosuggestion.