Quotes About Attention

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for.

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.

Nomi flinched. "You caught his attention. You are a Grace. Congratulations." Nomi's tears spilled, burning her cheeks. "I didn't want this. This wasn't a prize, Serina. We should have a choice!" "This was my choice," Serina blazed. "No." Nomi's heart wrenched. "It isn't a choice when you don't have the freedom to say no. A yes doesn't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed!

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

You know I don't listen to market gossip," she began, "but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter's name is mentioned.

These and other tools help poems call our attention to moments when the ordinary nature of experience changes--when the things we think we know flare into brighter colors, starker contrasts, strange and intoxicating possibilities.

So many people, he thought, don't listen to the content of what you say but only to the noises you make.

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

Sights, smells, temperature changes—all sorts of stuff. We notice it without consciously thinking about it. He says we may not be paying attention, but our brains are recording and processing it all the same, and these… these observations, or whatever you want to call them, make up a pattern. So if you're good with patterns, the way Mr. Benedict says I am, you can sometimes predict things.

He cranked the key until the watch was fully wound, then withdrew the key and held the watch to his ear.

Reynie rarely watched television, he knew the Emergency

You get what you concentrate on…there is no other main rule.

When you stop to smell roses, be careful not to inhale bee.

The pause is as important as the note.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands.

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.

Winter glanced over at Moon, for the nine thousandth time that day,

Tsunami was drilling RainWings in evasive maneuvers, although apparently what that actually meant was a lot of yelling things like "Pay attention!" and "Leave that toucan alone!" and "Why are you pink? Stop being pink!" and "THREE MOONS, ARE YOU EATING AGAIN?

Tsunami lashed her tail so hard she nearly fell off the branch. "General, may I take a nap? General, I need a papaya! General, my claws are tired! General, look, a butterfly! SOMEBODY IS GETTING STABBED IN THE FACE IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP.

Finally his attention was caught by an enormous splash off to his right. He lifted his head to look and saw a small whale come surging out of the water, thrashing and twisting. A moment later, sharp blue claws sank into the whale's sides and it was dragged back under, disappearing in a cloud of red bubbles. He stared at the spot intently and realized that there were ripples extending far out from that spot … as if a parade of sea dragons were swimming their way. Sure

How many of you would rather go to a meeting than a movie?" No hands went up. "Why not?" After a pause, Jeff realized that her question was not a rhetorical one. "Because movies are more interesting. Even the bad ones." His peers chuckled. Kathryn smiled. "Right. But if you really think about it, meetings should be at least as interesting as movies.

Can I Inadvertently Blow Things Up? You bet. One of the easiest ways to do so is to fail to follow good reloading habits.