Quotes About Attention

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The ability to observe, and the ability to see the little things that seem trivial at first, may become amazingly important and meaningful.

Say something nice about somebody and nobody will listen. Make it mean, malicious, scandalous and everybody in town will help you spread the word.

In other words, Job is saying to God: If I am important enough for You to keep track of my every mistake and punish me for them, then am I not worth five minutes of Your time to tell me what I am being punished for? And if I am too insignificant to merit Your personal attention, then why am I important enough for You to measure out my punishment?

Now is all the time I have anything to do with," said Miss Ophelia.

If you want to win her hand, Let the maiden understand That she's not the only pebble on the beach.

You cannot possibly remember anything you do not observe; and it is extremely difficult to observe or remember anything that you do not want to remember, or that you are not interested in remembering.

Ordinarily, there'd be no way to picture a name like Bentavagnia (pronounced bent-a-vane-ya). But you can picture, say, a bent weather vane. And bent vane has to remind you of Bentavagnia! The Substitute Word system will work beautifully to help you remember names. Applying it will force you to listen to, pay attention to, concentrate on that name—to be Originally Aware of

Even if step three didn't work (which it does), just applying steps one and two must improve your memory for names and faces, because you've done what most people don't do—you've paid attention; you've listened and looked.

You are absentminded when your mind is absent; when you perform actions unconsciously, without thinking. We've discussed the difference between seeing and observing—we see with our eyes, but we observe with our minds. If your mind is "absent" when performing an action, there can be no observation; more important, there can be no Original Awareness.

Alles waar je je wil en je aandacht op richt, wordt onzichtbaar, onbereikbaar, dat is tenminste mijn ervaring. Je ziet de dingen pas werkelijk uit je ooghoeken, als je eigenlijk ergens anders mee bezig bent. Het is net of de werkelijkheid zich dan gepasseerd voelt, het niet neemt en zich aan je opdringt.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

daily bombardment of idiocy

That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.

All too often, people make the mistake of focusing too much on the content of their

Pimpin dan kendalikanlah jiwa dengan baik, karena amat liarnya, dan beri ingatlah, karena dia lekas lupa.

Every soul is born with concentration; it loses this faculty as it grows up.

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

When Clara played the piano, it wasn't magic. It didn't charm birds from the sky or pull the sun from the clouds. It didn't stop time or brighten the moon. But it did make people listen. When she played, people stopped. Some even romoved their hats and quietly said, Ah! It wasn't magic. But it was close

Other people will always appear to move with dedication and consequence. How else does a person behave when people are watching?

It takes work to shift your focus from the smudges on the window to the view outside.

Love is as enduring as your attention on your heart allows love to hold you and last from the time you forget the very word love to the time you remember how to feel it again.

Repeating yourself is brave. Repeating yourself calls attention to what you are saying.