Quotes About Attention

perceiving the world" entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular "perceiving" is done with our senses and with our will.

Everybody goes to mass, buy nobody pays attention to the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Comedy shows us that one must not take life too seriously, and tragedy teaches us what happens when we pay no attention to what comedy teaches us

La maggior parte degli uomini, inclusi quelli che osservavano per professione, confondevano il vedere con il guardare, e quasi sempre si soffermavano sui dettagli ovvi che velavano la lettura al di là di ciò che era irrilevante. Leandro diceva sempre che scomparire nello sguardo dell'avversario era un'arte il cui apprendimento poteva durare un'intera vita.

Caring requires paying attention, seeing, listening, responding with respect. Its logic is contextual, psychological. Care is a relational ethic, grounded in a premise of interdependence. But it is not selfless.

Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.

I love my thoughts, even when they take me up and down sour-smelling byways where I'd rather not venture. Whatever flickers on in my head is mine and I want it, all the blinking impulses and inclinations and connections and weirdness, and especially those bright purple flares that come streaming out of nowhere, announcing you're at some mystic juncture or turning point and that you'd better pay attention.

The time to fix something is when it's first broken, not when it's shattered in so many pieces that there's not enough glue in the world to put it back together again.

A man who listened? Had she found the eighth wonder of the world?

JACKSON'S DARK BROWN HAIR curled up on his shirt collar. Black lashes and heavy brows framed his blue eyes. A few crow's-feet around his eyes were the only sign that he'd just passed his fortieth birthday and they were minimized in the dim restaurant lights. His jeans were creased and stacked up over his highly polished black boots just the right way. Waitresses stopped what they were doing and gazed at him over their shoulders as he passed. Their

You know, it isn't that were particularly good at granting wishes, or finding things or, well, anything . Playing tricks, maybe. but we pay attention. We find the loose thread that everyone else misses and tug. It makes us look so very clever.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

If a person admires you a lot you despise him and you don't care-- and it is the person who doesn't notice you that are apt to admire.

Don't ever take it for granted when people look into you're eyes… You've no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it is an angry glare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

You are a circus act all of your own and I cannot help but be your audience.

The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to see it

I'm real. And i'm not going anywhere until you open those eyes properly and see me

As long as you're around, your life is too. So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who sorround you, you have to do so equally with your life, because it's yours, it's you, and it's always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it. I gave up on my life for a while, but what I've learned is that even when that happens and especially when that happens, life never gives up on you.

So just as you shower love and affection and attention on the husbands, wives, parents, children and forever friends who surround you, you have to do equally with your life, because its yours, its you, and its always there rooting for you, cheering you on, even when you feel like you can't do it.

Dear Ms. Dunne, I was hoping that you could come to the school to discuss Katie's rapidly deteriorating behavior in class. Her attention span is short and she distracts other students by her note-passing. How does Wednesday after school sound? You can reach me at the school. You know the number. Ms. Casey To Katie, What do you mean your mum just laughed? From Toby Ahern, Cecelia (2005-02-01). Love, Rosie (p. 99). Hachette Books. Kindle Edition.

People didn't always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.

I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader?

Sometimes I have to stop pretending I'm interested in what she's saying in order to realize that I actually am interested.

people who constantly looked over their shoulders often bumped