Quotes About Attention

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.

All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

When the wings of insanity beat so near, one pays attention to a feather

If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure.

Whenever we make an idol of anything, we presuppose that it has the power to give life. We confuse something given by God as a means of life with its being the source and fulfillment of life. False worship is so dangerous because it witnesses to human attention and energy being directed in ways that are bound to lead to mutual harm.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. Carry this with you on your journey, he said softly, for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.

Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to them these days.

they never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for

action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he had used the phrases: Gaze, as it were, unpreoccupied, outward—or rather laterally—in the direction of the horizon, underlaid, so to speak, with the adjacent fluid inlet, and Now, returning—or rather, in a manner, withdrawing your attention, bestow it upon my upraised digit—I'll bet, I say, that Henry James himself could have passed the examination.

Mil cosas solicitan a la vez nuestra atención y ninguna de ellas logra retenernos; así la vida se nos vuelve arena entre los dedos y las horas humo en el cerebro.

Óyeme como quien oye llover, ni atenta ni distraída.

And don't start thinking about that boy's shirt again, or one day you may find yourself laundering it.

People will say anything to appear interesting.

One of the greatest gifts you can give is your undivided attention.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

At different times in our journeys, if we're paying attention, we get to sing the song we're meant to sing in the perfect key of life.

A beard well lathered is half shaven.

The best way to be in the present moment is to be aware that you're not in the moment. As soon as you're aware that you're not in the moment, you're in the moment. — Deepak Chopra

Here's how I see your weight—it is your smoke detector. And we're all burning up the best part of our lives.