Quotes About Attention

in spite of how hyped they were at the time of publication.

These people are the ones to watch out for

But I also buy the opposite argument that regulating street signs does not seem to reduce risks; drivers become more placid. Experiments show that alertness is weakened when one relinquishes control to the system (again, lack of overcompensation). Motorists need the stressors and tension coming from the feeling of danger to feed their attention and risk controls, rather than some external regulator—fewer pedestrians die jaywalking than using regulated crossings.

Creo que la poesía y el teatro requieren las mismas cosas. Creo que requieren una absoluta inmovilidad, un pleno abandono, una total atención, un profundo silencio.

El dar cuerda a alguien se decía en nuestra casa «dar cordel». Gino, efectivamente, daba poco cordel, porque siempre estaba leyendo, y cuando se le dirigía la palabra respondía con monosílabos y sin levantar la cabeza del libro.

The house was so proud of itself that you wanted to make a lot of noise as you passed, and maybe even throw a rock or two.

What I tried to do was to show certain inner "movements" by which I had long been attracted; in fact, I might even say that, ever since I was a child, these movements, which are hidden under the commonplace, harmless appearances of every instant of our lives, had struck and held my attention.

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider, not to look away but to look more attentively.

The practice of living consciously is the first pillar of self-esteem.

Doing what I am doing while I am doing it.

To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals-to the best of our ability...

To be in focus does not mean that one must be engaged in the task of problem-solving every moment of one's waking existence. It means that one must know what one's mind is doing.

seize the public by the button

Harl whirled round, all his attention ... on Skulker. What is that on your carapace?What? Skulker tried to peer back... A tinny voice issued from somewhere... It took Skulker a moment to recognize it as that of the human male he earlier encountered. It's CTD gecko mine - yield of about five kilotones. Skulker's shriek terminated in a blast that peeled back four square kilometers of jungle canopy and sunk a crater down to the bedrock.

Having invited these performances in the first place, the media justified covering them because they were receiving media attention... The result was to make of modern society one giant Heisenberg effect in which the media were not really reporting what people did; they were reporting what people did to get media attention.

Look, the thing that's going to make Disneyland unique and different,' he insisted, 'is the detail. If we loose the detail, we loose it all.

There are many ways in which the check brain light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.

there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world.

Important work," Jeri quipped, "often loses the spotlight to self-important people.

Instead of ignoring me, Frankie was suddenly noticing every little thing I did, wondering why I did it. Christina started asking me questions about things, like I was the smarter brother. Dad was now confiding in me about things that were really none of my business, and Mom started treating me like I was actually a responsible human being. It was all very disturbing.

People can read anything, but no one does. All they do is play games and watch cat holograms.

Scythe Anastasia is not your concern. She's my only concern.

I like the idea of communication tethering you to a single spot, Tenkamenin told Anastasia. It forces you to give every conversation the attention it deserves.

Important work often loses the spotlight to self-important people.