Quotes About Attention

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

chairs, looking as uninterested as Lily. She had singled Lily out, but Lily smiled as soon as she turned her attention to the others. She loved that Ms.

patient immediately, in case he might die later.

It was impossible for the daughter of Lady Liane Holmes-Aubrey Saint Martin and Keenan Saint Martin to go ignored.

Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.

I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.

Our eyes were on the Other-world, the stars, the gods. We didn't keep watch on the world around us. And when we eventually lowered our heads and studied the waters closer to home, it was too late.

You're not going to go around poking at the fire and straightening up the room again, are you?

He stepped forward, and as he did the left side of his coconut brassiere slipped down, revealing his left nipple. He shoved the coconut back into place. He didn't want to look unprofessional.

So for some reason everybody makes this huge deal about pandas. I don't know why. They never actually do anything except eat and poop. But they're really famous.' 'Yeah, said Suzana. 'They're like the Kardashians of zoo animals.

Pay attention to the people you love. (Not later. Right now.)

my feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring.

Now the movie stars beg people to follow their Zing feeds. They send pleading messages asking everyone to smile at them. And holy fuck, the mailing lists! Everyone's a junk mailer. You know how I spend an hour every day? Thinking of ways to unsubscribe to mailing lists without hurting anyone's feelings. There's this new neediness—it pervades everything.

What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?