Quotes About Attention

I insist that Carol eat in my presence for the same reason I wait for the coffee shop employee to turn back in my direction before putting a tip in his basket. I want to be acknowledged as a generous provider. This is about me, not them.

Dad doesn't pay attention when you talk to him, so Paul's taken to throwing the term IRS into his sentences. Then it's suddenly: "Hold on a second, what did you say?

What had we talked about and why hadn't I paid attention?

Would the teacher take note of my bulging eyes or comment on the thin strand of saliva hanging like fishing wire from the corner of my mouth?

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.' (Peter Schimdt)

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.

Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and softly rest on your shoulder.

J'ai pensé que les distractions cessent d'en être quand elles deviennent obligatoires.

Alban looked thoughtful for a moment, her blue eyes intent on something only she could see, then returned her attention to the admiral.

The purpose of shooting someone as an object lesson is to convince other people to pay attention to it, and that takes time.

Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life's work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

That's how the universe worked at times: little things - the tiniest things - could catapult you toward a good life, but you had to be open and you had to be paying attention. Love wasn't purely destined, it relied on hiccups of fate - Aimee Mann, someone else's trip to Peru, a black dog.

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

In my experience, a castaways's worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

Hay una gran recompensa para el ojo que observa y el oído que escucha.

Por qué tolerar la oscuridad? Todo ya está aquí y está claro si sabemos mirar con la atención debida.

The multitude of the curious and the offended descends upon him.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate . To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away

The point is that everything great and small happens by Divine Providence, and that even these small afflictions are sent from God as punishment, to get our attention, and that they too can make atonement for us.

You can observe a lot just by watching.