Quotes About Attention

El pasado se iba alejando como un paisaje que se va reduciendo poco a poco hasta convertirse en un punto en el espejo retrovisor mientras, delante de ella, a través del parabrisas, brillaba un futuro que reclamaba toda su atención.

la atención se ha desplazado, por el contrario, de las vastas unidades que se describían como "épocas" o "siglos", hacia fenómenos de ruptura.

Toda esa atención charlatana con la que hacemos ruido en torno de la sexualidad desde hace dos o tres siglos, ¿no está dirigida a una preocupación elemental: asegurar la población, reproducir la fuerza de trabajo, mantener la forma de las relaciones sociales, en síntesis: montar una sexualidad económicamente útil y políticamente conservadora?

La medicina de las especies se compromete en una atención renovada a lo individual, una atención cada vez más impaciente y menos capaz de soportar las formas generales de percepción, las lecturas apresuradas de esencia.

The best listening, Elsa said, was silence dilated by love and attention.

Erin!" "Hmmm?" "I'm talking to you!" "At me." She looped the sword around her hips and fastened the belt. "To me is when I answer.

Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important—all the data indicate—for life success than your IQ or your grades.

The right hemisphere controls sensory attention and body image; the left hemisphere controls skilled movements and some aspects of language.

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.

You can always spot the scientist at a strip club, because he is the only one examining the audience.

Awareness makes all the difference.

How many times have you hooked other people's attention, and spread poison about your loved one in order to make your opinion right?

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

Ahora estamos hablando de un planeta completamente distinto. No se parece en nada a la Tierra. Esto es lo que Jesús llamó «El cielo en la tierra», Buda, «Nirvana» y Moisés, la «Tierra Prometida». Es un lugar en el que todos nosotros podemos vivir con amor porque centramos nuestra atención en el amor. Elegimos amar.

We can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but using our attention, we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind.

The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don't agree, we don't store that information.

La necesidad de atención se vuelve muy fuerte y continúa en la edad adulta.

The outside dream has so many rules that when a new human is born, we hook the child's attention and introduce these rules into his or her mind. The outside dream uses Mom and Dad, the schools, and religion to teach us how to dream.

The process of domestication can be called the dream of the first attention because it was how your attention was used for the first time to create the first dream of your life.

One way to change your beliefs is to focus your attention on all those agreements and beliefs, and change the agreements with yourself. In doing this you are using your attention for the second time, thus creating the dream of the second attention or the new dream.

Put your attention on your dreams rather than your dramas.

The mastery of the human mind requires complete control of the attention — the way we interpret and react to information we perceive from inside of us and outside of us.

A relationship is an event; two individuals meet and catch each other's attention. Like any event, the length and the quality of it depends on the quality of attention from both sides. A romantic relationship, like any other, can survive indefinitely. Respect is the key. Driven by old habits and emotional dramas, a union will fail, becoming an insatiable monster that eats love and turns it into a thousand investments and fears.

By hooking the attention, the energy goes from one person to another person. The attention is something very powerful in the human mind. Everyone around the world is hunting the attention of others all the time. When we capture the attention, we create channels of communication.