Quotes About Attention

A Good Relationship is like a neat and defined nail art. It requires a lot of concentration, time devotion and patience, to take it to perfection!

When did you stop caring? he asked.When did you start noticing? she replied.

For the first time I understood how important it was to Auntie Oima that I become a maiko. It was a powerful realization. I really hadn't been paying attention.

I lament that women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was preparing dinner. Mom,guess what ? she squealed waving the drawing . her mother never looked up. what? she said ,tending to the pots. guess what? the child repeated ,waving the drawings. what? the mother said , tending to the plates. Mom, you're not listening sweetie,yes I am Mom the child said you're not listening with your EYES

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with. ... I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it.

Why was he so quiet? To see if you would listen

They gave up days and weeks of their lives, addicted to someone else's drama

I believe in being fully present," Morrie said. "That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. "I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

So many people with far smaller problems are so self-absorbed, their eyes glaze over if you speak for more than thirty seconds.

Look. It's one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don't really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look over. We glance. We move on. You looked. Your eyes flickered with curiosity. You caught fireflies and asked if they had batteries. You unearthed a penny and asked if it was treasure. And without prompting, you knew discovery should be shared.

Qué? Yo hacía girar los dedos de sus pies entre mis dedos, absorto en la tarea. –Mírame. Levanté la vista y vi en sus ojos una mirada muy

I look back sometimes at the person I was before I rediscovered my old professor. I want to talk to that person. I want to tell him what to look out for, what mistakes to avoid. I want to tell him to be more open, to ignore the lure of advertised values, to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.

I want to tell him to be more open, to ignore the lure of advertised values, to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.

Learning to pay attention? How important could that be? I now know it is more important than almost everything they taught us in college.

He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.

Public taste is as fickle as a child's attention span

Look. It's one of the shortest sentences in the English language. But we don't really look, Chika. Not as adults. We look over. We glance. We move on.

I believe in being fully present, Morrie said. That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

Você deve ser forte, desejei convencê-lo. Deve pensar mais como eu. Ela é real, sim, mas também é uma invenção, um desejo derivado de sua própria necessidade. Em sua solidão, você se apegou ao primeiro rosto que chamou sua atenção. Poderia ter sido qualquer uma, você sabe. Afinal, é um homem, meu caro. Ela é apenas uma mulher e existem milhares iguais espalhadas por esta grande cidade.

Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.