Quotes About Attention

when our desire occupies all of space the absence of one object goes totally unnoticed, because the flow of our awareness remains free to come into contact with thousands of others.

But charisma only wins people's attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.

Remind yourself that every second spent scrolling through social media is one you will never get back.

There's something about death that gets our attention. When it's close—in the family or shared by the community—it sends us back to our most basic understanding of things. Back to our presuppositions you might say. Death requires of us an explanation. Some invoke the periodic table, some the human condition, and some go back to church—at least for a while.

Quem não olha, deixa de prestar atenção nas coisas.

watched John and I

He sometimes thought of a crime scene as a woman's body. Every man naturally took interest in a few specific locations and largely ignored the rest. It was those other places—the skin at the base of the neck, the dimple on the lower back, the pad of her palm—where he could make a difference. A crime scene was no different. It was a woman who deserved to be explored completely. This was not an analogy Roger had ever shared with his wife.

how he gathered every morsel for later use as ammunition. His skill in this was impressive; he might not even be paying attention, and still, somehow, he absorbed details she shared. The most mundane, irrelevant facts were corrupted in his grip.

Keep your eyes on the things you are drawing 80 percent of the time and on your page just 20 percent.

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

La necesidad de compañía del hombre se suple con la cercanía de su mujer, mientras que la mujer necesita una atención personalizada.

He had insinuated himself into Nina's life in a gentle, measured way, through small gifts and intelligent, respectful notes. His attention was never overbearing, nor disturbingly selfless, but wise and reserved.

Amar la belleza es un sufrimiento, si quienes están a nuestro lado se niegan si quiera a prestarle atención

The brain is an irrelevant topic of the century.

The limbic system is the part of the brain that detects things in the environment that we should pay attention to and sends an emotional signal about what to do in response: Avoid! Investigate! Eat! Fight! Flirt! Starting around puberty, the limbic system becomes more sensitive to stimulus, which is one reason teenagers become both more emotional and more interested in having new and intense experiences.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous?

Take time to smell the roses and eventually you'll inhale a bee. Anon.

Sitting hens are temperamental and should not be disturbed by people or animals.

The good news and the bad news are the same: No one cares!

Behind every screen on your phone, there are literally a thousand engineers that have worked on this thing to try to make it maximally addicting

According to Aza Raskin, the smartphone's infinite scroll feature (which allows us to swipe down continuously without clicking) was deliberately built to be habit-forming. He should know. He's the engineer who created it.