Quotes About Attention

A veces uno no presta mucha atención a aquello que no cree que pueda suceder

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May love to drop things so you'll pick them up (which is indicative of a growing sense of object permanence — and a little sense of humor). Engages in

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Attention is malleable. We can intensify it, shift it either voluntarily or involuntarily. We can soften it, diffuse it. We can deploy global attention toward tangible external objects, or to their intangible attributes. We can direct attention internally to retrieve items that we have stored in memory. We can sustain attention by infusing a component of motivation, either from the top-down (by intention) or by much more subtler means related to our habitual ongoing attitudes.

Perceiving Clearly The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. William James (1842-1910) Can we trust what we perceive? William James pointed to another attribute of attention: it helped augment the ''clearness of all that we perceive or conceive.

Do some involuntary forms of ''no-thought'' attention normally exist that can be cultivated during long-term meditative training?

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies.

Their crowing and the vapors of the hot sauce helped clear enough room in my head to think about out what I had to do. Planning my day was a way of not giving into despair. It really is not possible to pay attention fully to two things at once. For instance: carpentry and suicide.

It must be admitted that when I turn around while driving our car and reply to my wife's protests that I can perfectly well see where I am going without having to look where I am going because the focus of outflow is implicit, she is not reassured.

Nunca se es demasiado importante para hacer las pequeñas cosas que deben hacerse.

Pressure is expectation, scrutiny and consequence,' says Gilbert Enoka. 'Under pressure, your attention is either diverted or on track. If you're diverted, you have a negative emotional response and unhelpful behaviour. That means you're stuck. That means you're overwhelmed.' On the other hand, if your attention is on track you have situational awareness and you execute accurately. You are clear, you adapt and you overcome.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

What seems to be the problem?" Book continued. His warm baritone voice was so mellow and reasonable, you could easily imagine yourself sitting up and paying attention as he delivered a sermon in church, and not just that but enjoying it.

Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.

He questioned his monastic vocation as much as he embraced it. He desired solitude as much as he craved attention and affection from his brothers. He sought intimacy with others as much as he treasured his chastity. He battled with his religious superiors as much as he hoped to follow his vow of obedience. Most of all, he wished for fame and influence as much as he saw that humility was the foundation for a healthy monastic life.

GOD COMMUNICATES WITH US in many ways. But prayer is a special time when God's voice is often heard most clearly because we are giving God our undivided attention. Whether in Ignatian contemplation, lectio divina, the colloquy, the examen, or any other practice, the "still small" voice can be heard with a clarity that can delight, astonish, and surprise you. So when you pray, however you pray, and feel that God is speaking to you—pay attention.

Occasionally during prayer, when I catch myself daydreaming, I say to myself, "You're speaking with God! Pay attention!

today we no longer value silence at all. Electronic gadgets—cell phones, laptops, and so on—have created a world of constant stimulation.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

Properly speaking, life and death as such are rarely the stakes of a finite game. What one wins is a title; and when the loser of a finite game is declared dead to further play, it is equivalent to declaring that person utterly without title-a person to whom no attention whatsoever need be given. Death, in finite play, is the triumph of the past over the future, a condition in which no surprise is possible.

Because it is address, attending always on the response of the addressed, infinite speech has the form of listening. Infinite speech does not end in the obedient silence of the hearer, but continues by way of the attentive silence of the speaker. It is not a silence into which speech has died, but a silence from which speech is born.

Respect was a big word in Linc's vocabulary. It meant being selective and paying attention to things that mattered and people who made differences. And respect for oneself meant being valuable enough to make sure they would notice you. That was the key to doing better than just getting by and surviving, which was something even the rats in the sewers under the city managed.