Quotes About Attention

As soon as I stopped fixating on the destination—where I wanted to hit the ball—and instead focused on what was in front of me—the point of impact—everything began to work.

En el fondo, el cerebro no es capaz de procesar todo en ese entorno, ni por asomo. Así que a lo máximo que llega es a aplicar esos pequeños filtros. Y

Time without attention is worthless, so value attention over time.

Scott me ayudó a reorientar mi atención hacia los sistemas, por usar su propio lenguaje, en lugar de concentrarme en las metas.

Is your weekend really free if you find a crisis in the inbox Saturday morning that you can't address until Monday morning? Even if the inbox scan lasts 30 seconds, the preoccupation and forward projection for the subsequent 48 hours effectively deletes that experience from your life. You had time but you didn't have attention, so the time had no practical value.

In a world of distraction, single-tasking is a superpower.

La persona que es desatenta en la luna de miel (al principio) irá a peor en el futuro.

Me gusta analizar lo que Seth no hace tanto como lo que sí hace. Seth no tiene comentarios en su blog, no presta atención a las analíticas y no usa Twitter ni Facebook

Cuando oigo historias de éxito y fracaso busco las pequeñas cosas que marcaron una gran diferencia.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance

If you are reading an article that sucks, put it down and don't pick it back up. If you go to a movie and it's worse than Matrix III, get the hell out of there before more neurons die. If you're full after half a plate of ribs, put the damn fork down and don't order dessert.

Just listening to music for its own sake, not listening to the people around you and not filtered through what you know about the musician's personal life.

It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. Most are all three.

Simply in focusing our attention on the "enemy" Ignatius is rendering us a great service. To be unaware that we can expect resistance when we seek the Lord, or to be aware of this resistance only abstractly and very occasionally, if at all, in the actual living of our spiritual life, greatly increases the likelihood of encountering unexpected spiritual struggles. What is unexpected and finds us unprepared is difficult to overcome and can easily lead to discouragement.

Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean. The

Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean.

Remember that email is skywriting.

When we learn them from a screen, however, we tend to be drawn in by the logic of spectacle. When we learn of one scandal, it whets our appetite for the next.

Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one.

If past and future contained nothing but struggle and scarcity, all attention fell upon the present. A psychic resolve for relief from a sense of crisis overwhelmed the practical resolve to think about the future. Rather

Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.

If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.

Gdy tonie Wenecja, ca?y ?wiat p?acze i protestuje. Gdy znika Pekin, nikt nie zwraca na to uwagi.

This is all we are at our best, he thought, tiny instances accumulating up into a greater whole. There is noting magnificent in this world, he thought, that is not born from an act so slight as to go wholly unnoticed. We must be especially attentive to see them, and to remember to perform them, he thought, yes, that is the crux: we must simply pay attention.