Quotes About Attention

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

You must use your mind to get things off your mind.

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?" I said nothing. "What colour's a blackbird?" she said. "Black" "Typical!

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?

Students seemed to be willing to behave better and pay more attention when there was somebody in the room who could kick their butts. In classes with younger children, corporal punishment was reinstated, because even though Americans had started thinking that spanking a kid was some kind of child abuse, many other countries knew better. Their kids still got spanked, and their crime rates were a lot lower than ours.

Learn you will never, if attention you do not pay.

just look around you. I don't wish to be rude …

Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.....

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

Insight meditation11 requires neither a blank mind, generating special imagery nor repeating a mantra, but trains the mind to dispassionately observe the phenomena constantly appearing on its luminous screen.

Philately is exacting. It demands an eye and a memory for details, for the intricacies of designs, for tiny differences between one batch of stamps and another.

Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

You may be yesterday's news to some but you will be tomorrows front page to many

Here's a card I'm holding. Finland. There's where you first got interested in Kang, isn't it? He must have been using it as some sort of base. Quiet, out-of-the-way place, where people mind their own business. I'll bet you can go for long walks with no one else around. What did he do to catch your attention? Or did the Finns alert you?

Everything you think about is a meditation, and you could say that the very form of your consciousness follows what you put your attention to. So Chi is really just focused attention, and it is attention, or awareness, that brings about results of whatever kind, rather than some nebulous energy or vril force. But energy is a good metaphor.

Picking up pennies while dropping dollars

Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.

The average North American has probably lavished one hundred times more attention on O. J. Simpson and Monica Lewinsky than he has on the new microtechnologies that are poised to antiquate his job and subvert the political system he depends on for unemployment compensation.

Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby. "Go ahead," Newt replied. Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.

You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

Quiero decir, debería ser imposible, algunas veces no miras con la suficiente atención las cosas que no crees que pasaran o pueden pasar.