Quotes About Attention

No matter how attentive their people were, dogs spent more time waiting than doing.

When he turns his attention once more to Katie, he makes a noise that in part is an expression of distress

She listens to Walsh describe a boat that he observed passing Oak Haven Island;

Don't use your mind to try and figure things out. What is it that watches your mind? Be there—now.

The pastor made a funny comment. He said that when he taught marriage classes most of those attending took naps. It was the divorce classes where everyone took notes.

The nature of love is about paying attention to the people who matter, about still giving when you are too tired to give. Be a mother who listens, a father who cuddles, a friend who calls back, a helping neighbor, a loving child.

If your brain does not receive sufficient stimulus, it might find something else to do—it daydreams, it wanders, it thinks about itself. If this goes on too long, it can affect your mind's normal functioning. Chronic boredom correlates with depression and attention deficits.

When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest.

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.

As he expressed these ideas he followed them with his eyes, watching them gallop away to the place where they made sense.

When I sit up here... I'm just blown away God even notices us...

People just want you to see them as they hope to be seen. And everyone wants to be seen as interesting.

He was broad-shouldered, dark-haired and dark-eyed; more than once, women had been noted openly regarding him, and not just immigrant women or those who smoked in public.

He taught us that everyone has a story and the more you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family (73) - Bill Clinton Paying Attention

What separates a chosen "good death" from a bad one almost always comes down, upon analysis, to the amount of planning, attention to detail, and the quality of the assistance, all of which are vital to decent termination of life.

World Wide Waste of Time (specifically

The moment feels laden with mystery and tension, as if for one second the world has agreed to pay attention to time itself.

She is stirring a pot of leben yogurt, which is heated slowly, carefully, tenderly, and hopefully, layered with butter and onions and heady and rich as a high summer night. She cannot stop stirring because it is a fragile, temperamental sauce, given to breaking and curdling if given its way. So she must wait and stand and stir and stir and stir and look and look.

It was fortunate that the room was empty, except for half a score or so of servants. These were busy enough laying out the six couple of roast fowl, the twenty pheasants, the baron of beef, the venison pies, gooseberry pies, and plum pudding, and they had no time or inclination to pay the least attention to their master's private conversation with his wife.

That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl

Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.

Watch a good movie sometime without reference to what's happening but only with attention to how it was photographed; you'll see the change of focus—zoom in, pan out, close-up on face, fade to black, open from above—easily. You want to do that in what you write; it's one of the things that keep people's eyes on the page, though they're almost never conscious of it.

Knowing from experience how difficult it was to distract Frank's attention from this sort of discussion, I simply picked up his hand, wrapped his fingers about the stem of the glass and left him to his own devices.

take some attention, aye?" He drew the sticky tip