Quotes About Attention

One hears all sorts of things. The question is whether they matter.

If they turned their back on something frightening behind them and tried to get really interested in the stones and how they fitted together, or the leaves on the bush, like if only they could make themselves find that really important, they'd be safe.

a nervous, undernourished girl who continually looked down the front of her gown as though there was some sort of construction project going on under her clothes.

Die wirklich wichtige Freiheit erfordert Aufmerksamkeit, und Offenheit und Disziplin und Mühe und die Empathie, andere Menschen wirklich ernst zu nehmen und Opfer für sie zu bringen, wieder und wieder, auf unendlich verschiedene Weisen, völlig unsexy, Tag für Tag.

wooed several gorgeous hours a day for nothing but our attention, we regard that attention as our chief commodity, our social capital, and we are loath to fritter it.

Learning how to think' really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

We do not pray so that we can get God's attention. We pray so that God will get our attention.

The Libra plan came out when Facebook was under increasingly close attention from governments, who were deeply suspicious of the company's track record on privacy, election manipulation and falsified news.

No one was going to be looking for us; they were all too busy with more serious problems.

If television is a quick detour to mass stupidity, then video games are the express lane.

Hearing is when the sound reaches your ears and listening is when the sound reaches your brain.

Overcomers concentrate on details that go unnoticed by others. They do what needs to be done, even when no one is watching.

Amid the thousands of shrill voices screaming for our attention, there is but on Voice we need to hear. The voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

in his mind nearly everyone seemed to be noticing him in the same way that he was focusing on himself.

I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

Jesus died for our sins, Noah says solemnly. What?!? I reply, choking back my thoughts. I was just seeing if you were listening.

Since I'm not part of it yet, I see it: how a group of people can become a blizzard, how all the tie spent buying and picking out exactly the right clothes doesn't mean shit now because nobody is looking at clothes or poses.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

It was strange enough to think that Norah knew who I was before I knew who she was. That she'd been in Tris's orbit without me noticing. But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

Because what is more transfixing than the sound of people hating you?