Quotes About Attention

Attention is living; inattention is dying. The attentive never stop; the inattentive are dead already. Dhammapada 21 We frequently hear it said that staying involved in life keeps you young.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

We fixate on what is relevant to us, and we see what we want to see.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

that the main responsibility of disciples as they head into the future is to be doctrinally careful to be attentive only to Jesus Christ and not to be "taken in" by flashy but false predictors and their plausible but false predictions of times, periods, and

staring intently at the

Vivemos cercados de palavras vãs, condenados a uma civilização que teme o silêncio. Fala-se muito para dizer bem pouco. Jornais, revistas, TV, outdoors, telefone, correio eletrônico - há demasiado palavrório. E sabemos todos que não se dá valor ao que se abusa.

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

It's hard for most of us to admit, but when you start paying attention you'll notice that you actually enjoy being angry. There's this wonderful rush of self-righteousness to it. Because, obviously, you can't be angry about something unless you know you're right and the other person is wrong. You

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

If you can't be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot?

love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

To get their attention, start lobbing the light grenades (That burst and blind them with the truth! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!)

Set yourself on fire and the world will come to see you burn

You're only as interesting to the extent of those that are interested in you.

Meilin passed stared at her. Some covertly

there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Humans don't make sense." "If you're only now learning that," Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention.

He was right. I was letting myself get distracted, like a rabbit doing math problems instead of looking for foxes.

anyone know where Kell is?" "Sleeping," Vin said. "He came in late last night, and hasn't gotten up yet." Ham grunted, taking a bite of baywrap. "Dox?" "In his room on the third floor," Vin said. "He got up early, came down to get something to eat, and went back upstairs." ... Ham raised an eyebrow. "You always keep track of where everyone is like that?" "Yes.

Turned out that the end of the world had to actually arrive before people would take it seriously.