Quotes About Attention

Aubrey - "Apparently she wears a black leather catsuit and a golden mask." Irene - "Any details on the mask?" Aubrey - "I think people are usually too busy looking at the black leather catsuit.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.

The crowd began chanting, "The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!

The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without notice unless they're called to your attention. One of the most disingenuous moves in the incivility wars is to treat these expressions with a specious literalism; politics makes Freudians of us all. (205)

I've seen a disobedient client simply turn his attention toward The Adversary and ask "Are You still there?" and suddenly all was made well between them.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

No es que los oráculos hayan dejado de hablar, sino que los hombres han dejado de escucharlos.

it is the nature of religions to put a higher premium on your proper attention to ritual than on your convenience.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys, Are never valued till they make a noise.

E quibus, hi vacuas implent sermonibus aures:

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

It's your job to apprehend criminals?" "Only some. You have to do something remarkable to gain my attention.

The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

He stepped away from me. His gaze was impossible to hold. "Okay. I hear you. Be careful what you wish for, Princess.

She said that there was a unique beauty to the imperfection. No other cup would ever be chipped in quite the same way. It reminded her to pay attention, for every moment could offer an experience that would leave her forever changed.

I'm formally proposing. The first time it didn't take. Kill me, somebody. Curran! Get Up. People are looking at us.

It's worth a try. Maybe he'll be so happy you noticed his pork sword, he'll forget all about trying to kill us." Pork sword. Kill me now.

Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars. – Author Unknown

It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

But now her tears dried because so many terrible emotions and speculations demanded her attention.

It is not simply that suppression of self is required before accurate vision can be obtained. The great artist sees his objects (and this is true whether they are sad, absurd, repulsive or even evil) in a light of justice and mercy. The direction of attention is, contrary to nature, outward, away from self which reduces all to a false unity, towards the great surprising variety of the world, and the ability so to direct attention is love.

He was attentive but impersonal, and esteemed rather than loved.

But people have their own troubles and tend to forget. One is not all that interesting. Even Hitler is being forgotten at last.