Quotes About Attention

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

Conversely, when we continually bring awareness to the immediate moment of experience, this capacity will soon be found in dream.

Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

pay no attention to the scarecrows the devils set up in order to cause fear. We should know that each time we pay no attention to them they are weakened, and the soul gains much more mastery.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

MARIA. So. How is everyone? Can you hear me? I don't believe in microphones. Singing is first of all about projection. So is speech. People are forgetting how to listen. They want everything blasted at them. Listening takes concentration. If you can't hear me, it's your fault. You're not concentrating.

Empathy, attention, and calm provide a scaffold that steadies the teen's volatile emotions.

Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

What did you say, Gram? About there being no church out here?" "I said that the sky was the roof of my cathedral and the desert was its floor and any time I paid attention, I could feel a higher power all around me.

Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters.

you can change your desires by changing what you give attention to.

You can't argue with the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

That's the nature of praise. It draws our attention away from our problems, no matter how overwhelming they are, and lifts our gaze to God.

we cannot ignore the enemy of our souls, but neither should we lavish attention on him.

A local advertising periodical offered the following disclaimer: Just in case you find mistakes in this paper, please remember they were put there for a purpose. Some folks are always looking for mistakes, and we try to please everyone!

Chaos, then, is the enemy of growth. Disorganization, sloppiness, and inattention generally introduce the kind of instability that weakens rather than strengthens. Where there is no order there will likely be little in the environment that sustains and nourishes. Life needs to be ordered.

don't call the doctors cause they've seen it all before they'll say just let her crash and burn she'll learn the attention just encourages her

DIANA: Well, how was I supposed to know that? MARY: Maybe because we mentioned it over and over again? DIANA: You're assuming that I listen.

But the fact that the debased culture of which rap music is a product receives such serious attention and praise deludes its listeners into supposing that nothing finer exists than what they already know and like. Such flattery is thus the death of aspiration, and lack of aspiration is, of course, one of the causes of passivity.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

You may not know it, but then again, maybe you do, but your sister is a prostitute." "And that makes a difference?" He looked at her in a speculative way, as if he wondered what she did for a living. "My sister is a person. She deserves the same attention you would give anybody.