Quotes About Attention

Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!

The quality of mindfulness is not a neutral or blank presence. True mindfulness is imbued with warmth, compassion, and interest. In the light of this engaged attention, we discover it is impossible to hate or fear anything or anyone we truly understand. The nature of mindfulness is engagement: where there is interest, a natural, unforced attention follows.

once you see the difference that paying full attention can make to the small things in life, you start to get an inkling of the cost of inattention.

Mindful awareness—or mindfulness—spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are.

Mindful awareness – or mindfulness – spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are. In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become.

Everyday life offers endless opportunities for you to stop, to focus, to remind yourself to be fully awake and present to what is happening right now

A typical meditation consists of focusing your full attention on your breath as it flows in and out of your body (see "A one-minute meditation" on the opposite page). Focusing on each breath in this way allows you to observe your thoughts as they arise in your mind and, little by little, to let go of struggling with them

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. The

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

there is nothing wrong in talking quietly; it only makes people listen harder.

To be interesting, be interested.

Telephones ringing at night are important.

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

My mother denied later that they treated me like this. She has a very convenient way of forgetting and rearranging the past to fit whatever view she currently wishes to promote, much like the history changers in George Orwell's 1984. She now knows very little about me, but makes up stories so as to seem closer to me than she truly is. It gains her more attention.

Most of the people on Death Row are here for no other reason than that their case got more publicity than others. The difference between a man receiving a prison sentence and a man receiving a death sentence could be decided by nothing more than a slow news day.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

Je crois que je vais me suicider sur facebook

I never thought about being famous.

Dogs have such a limited lifespan to teach us about friendship and loyalty...perhaps they know we have a short span of attention.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

Does it really matter how many people tune in to watch us?

Were you talking about how the Egyptians pulled the brains of mummies out through their noses? No! Nobody cares about that stuff, Arlo.

Excuse me," said Andrea, raising her hand to ruin everybody's fun like always.

as more attention is given to distinguishing between pinpoint differences in touch, sound, or sight, the area of the brain devoted to that distinction expands and, in the process, gets better at it.