Quotes About Attention

Maybe she'd always wished to be beautiful and didn't quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn't say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there'd been a mistake and she was after all.

Being relevant simply consists in paying close attention to the point that is being talked about and saying nothing that is not significantly related to it.

Many persons believe that they know how to read because they read at different speeds. But they pause and go slow over the wrong sentences. They pause over the sentences that interest them rather than the ones that puzzle them.

o leitor ou ouvinte são como o apanhador (catcher) num jogo de beisebol.

Concentration is another name for what we have called activity in reading. The good reader reads actively, with concentration.

Elie Wiesel says that the greatest evil in the world is not anger or hatred, but indifference. If that is true, then the opposite is also true: that the greatest love we can show our children is the attention we pay them, the time we take for them. Maybe we serve children the best simply by noticing them.

The only sap from which they draw life is your attention and fear of them.

Under the assumption that it would attract less attention than a BIC language, the conspirators conducted telephone conversations in English--broken English, to be exact, with one tense, no articles, and two pronunciations, both wrong(129).

The art of fiction, like the art of stage magicians, is one of directing the audience's attention to what you want them to see.

A great many of us engage in this kind of climate change denial. We look for a split second and then we look away. Or we look but then turn it into a joke ("more signs of the Apocalypse!"). Which is another way of looking away.

when climate change deniers claim that global warming is a plot to redistribute wealth. It's not (only) because they are paranoid. It's also because they are paying attention.

I was running wild through the forest of magic, pushing brambles out of my way, heedless of scratches and dirt, paying no attention where I was going.

keep your eyes on him, you wretched vainglorious creature

Though many women realized that their attention was being focused in this way, fewer fully understood how thoroughly politically such focusing works: In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly.

A Positive Mental Attitude 2. Definiteness of purpose 3. Going the extra mile 4. Accurate thinking 5. Self-discipline 6. The master mind 7. Applied faith 8. A pleasing personality 9. Personal initiative 10. Enthusiasm 11. Controlled attention 12. Teamwork 13. Learning from defeat 14. Creative vision

untidy, and out-of-date materials denote disorganization and a lack of interest on the part of the salesperson.

A publisher of books, which sell for a nickel, made a discovery that should be worth much to publishers generally. He learned that many people buy titles, and not contents of books.

Now I am here - now read me - give me a name.

Seine Kleider, die den Zweck hatten, Kälte und Hitze von ihm abzuhalten, schienen zu flüstern: Er zog uns an, während er mit seinen Gedanken ganz wo anders war.

The are times When you may think that people are staring at you - They are.

The force of your gaze has a weight. Even sunlight resting on the ground weighs something. Your attention presses against its object, your eye projects it like a headlight. There's a flip side to it. Learn to go down inside yourself, dim the force of your presence. People's eyes will skate right over you. They'll see you; they just won't notice you. This works even if they're looking for you.

There are times When you may think that people are staring at you - They are.

You are a serious person, but your seriousness is attached to what you do, not to what goes on outside you. You dwell upon yourself too much. That's the trouble. And that produces a terrible fatigue." But what else can anyone do, don Juan? Seek and see the marvels all around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else.

A warrior must focus his attention on the link between himself and his death . . .. He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will his acts have their rightful power.