Quotes About Attention

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

The best player of a game is the watcher — ask him.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Never assume that any activity is anything more than attention-getting until you have excluded this element.

Muéstrale a un hombre demasiados huesos de camello, o muéstraselos a menudo, y no podrá reconocer un camello vivo cuando se le cruce por delante. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

Es necesaria una preparación muy cuidadosa antes de que la gente pueda percibir algo que está allí todo el tiempo.

El mejor jugador de un juego es el espectador… pregúntale.

Recordando y Olvidando No te has olvidado de recordar; Te has acordado de olvidar. Pero la gente puede olvidarse de olvidar. Eso es tan importante como acordarse de recordar y, en general, más práctico.

Toda aproximación a un estudio o a un individuo debe comenzar con una apetencia de atención. Sin embargo...nunca debe acabar de esta manera.

Pon la masa en el horno cuando esté caliente; después de asegurarte de que en verdad sea masa.

Very often, people believe they are doing "significant" things when they merely want an interchange of attention.

Muchas veces, la gente cree estar haciendo cosas "significativas" cuando meramente quieren un intercambio de atención.

The Third Method of Prayer is that with each breath in or out, one has to pray mentally, saying one word of the Our Father, or of another prayer which is being recited: so that only one word be said between one breath and another, and while the time from one breath to another lasts, let attention be given chiefly to the meaning of such word, or to the person to whom he recites it, or to his own baseness, or to the difference from such great height to his own so great lowness.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.

Action is something you do purposefully with attention. If you really want something, you will use as much energy for it, and you will use it through action.

Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

You know what awareness is only when you are aware. Awareness is the perception of your presence in the now.

Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.