Quotes About Attention

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists...

Dirk was unused to making quite such a miniscule impact on anybody. He checked to be sure that he did have his huge leather coat and his absurd red hat on and that he was properly and dramatically silhouetted by the light on the doorway. He felt momentarily deflated and said, Er... by was of self-introduction, but it didn't get the boy's attention. He didn't like this. The kid was deliberately and maliciously watching television at him.

Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox was amazingly good at his job.

His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.

Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it. Zaphod

Dirk nearly exploded with pain and howled so loudly that he almost attracted the attention of a waiter.

Fuck 'em," said Ford, slumping on the bed. "You can't care about every damn thing.

It might not even have made much difference to them if they'd known exactly how much power the President of the Galaxy actually wielded: none at all. Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox was amazingly good at his job.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do.

It is possible that her remark would have commanded greater attention had it been generally realized that human beings were only the third most intelligent life form present on the planet Earth, instead of (as was generally thought by most independent observers) the second.

the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.

And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.

It might not even have made much difference to them if they'd known exactly how much power the President of the Galaxy actually wielded: none at all. Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.

Bir ÅŸeyi görmen onun orada olduÄŸu anlam?na gelmez. Ayn? ÅŸekilde bir ÅŸeyi görmemen de onun orada olmad??? anlam?na gelmez. Her ÅŸey alg?lar?n?n senin dikkatini nereye yönelttiÄŸine baÄŸl?d?r.

But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

But then a bumblebee bumbled above us and it stole our attention the way flying things can. Mom... Dad... I'm okay. I am not being starved, or beaten, or unnecessarily frightened.

Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.

Steven Spielberg once said, which is that people will sit through twenty minutes of anything.

Just the whole city watching

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

We end up putting so much attention onto our image that we remain in a continuous state of protecting or improving our image in order to control how others see us.