Quotes About Attention

Well, go on, Aunt Jane; haven't you got anything to say?' 'In a minute, dear, said Miss Marple. 'I am afraid I have counted wrong. Two purl, three plain, slip one, two purl?yes, that's right. What did you say, dear?' 'What is your opinion?' 'You wouldn't like my opinion, dear. Young people never do, I notice. It is better to say nothing.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

Real love is observing another person and being observed by another person with complete attention...and all art is love, because all art is about looking closely

Either we can be Conscious of the Now, or we can be grazing like a cow... chewing thoughts one by one, losing Life till it is done.

it's not the sound that disturbs you; it's you who disturbs the sound.

If we want to go further, then instead of being silently aware of whatever comes into the mind, we choose silent present-moment awareness of just one thing.

That is all we want to see, so that is all we do see.

One begins to realize that liberation is through letting go, through allowing life to flow, through openness and attention. 1 August 2001

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

You ain't heard nothin' yet, folks.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

72 Days is now an official unit of time known as a Kardash.

The human mind is capable of greatness, but we have been trained to process information with efficiency, which can sometimes mean superficially. We grab on to salient identifiers, often at the expense of devoting attention to more nuanced details. - Hank Beckman, Pg. 266

If you aren't completely appalled, then you haven't been paying attention.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it." "How do you know I'm not listening?" Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing.

Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are salient. So, for example, the pay is salient, especially the starting pay.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

The insecure are as self-absorbed as the boastful. The former worry that everyone is watching them. The latter worry that everyone is not.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.