Quotes About Attention

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen." ? John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

Arkana bakma, biri aray? kapat?yor olabilir...

His attention seemed tied to her face by a taut string.

That mini heart attack you have when you realize you tipped your chair back just a little too far.

Ha oído hablar alguna vez de manos de plantadora? —La verdad es que no, señora —Bueno, lo único que puedo decirle es lo que se siente. Cuando se eliminan los capullos que no se quieren. Entonces todo se concentra en las yemas de los dedos. Lo hacen los propios dedos. Los ves trabajar. Lo sientes. Arrancan un capullo tras otro. Sin equivocarse nunca. Se funden con la planta. ¿Comprende?

Those sons-of-bitches over there ain't buying. Every yard gets 'em. They're lookers. Spend all their time looking. Don't want to buy no cars; take up your time. Don't give a damn for your time.

Y es que, como es natural, los hombres sólo se interesan por ellos mismos. Si el oyente no tiene implicación en la historia, no prestará atención, de lo que se puede extraer que una historia grande y duradera tiene que comprometer a todos, o no perdurará

Most people don't read the details. It's the details that astonish me.

Jesus was a strange hobo who walked on water.- Buddha was also a hobo who paid no attention to the other hobo.- Chief Rain-In-The-Face, weirder even.-

It's always hard to start to concentrate. The mind darts like a chicken, trying to escape thinking even though thinking is the most rewarding function of man.

Attention is the most basic form of love; through it we bless and are blessed

No act is so private it does not seek applause.

You will find that success and attention to details, the smallest details, usually go hand in hand, in basketball and elsewhere in your life.

If you don't have the time to do it right, how can you have the time to do it over?

Minor details—like pennies—add up. A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

There are no big things, only an accumulation of many little things. Remove enough rivets and the wing falls off. However, it is up to you, the leader, to identify the correct rivets and determine how much attention each will be given. Do this correctly and your organization will survive flying through even the most turbulent competitive storm.

To allow ourselves to be truly in touch with where we already are, no matter where that is, we have got to pause in our experience long enough to let the present moment sink in; long enough to actually feel the present moment, to see it in its fullness, to hold it in awareness and thereby come to know and understand it better.

One very important domain of our lives and experience that we tend to miss, ignore, abuse, or lose control of as a result of being in the automatic pilot mode is our own body.

By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop by repetitively lifting weights.