Quotes About Attention

De alguna manera el hipotálamo busca la satisfacción inmediata de una serie de necesidades sin prestar demasiada atención a las consecuencias. Es un «quiero esto y lo quiero ya».

La serenidad no surge de vivir en las circunstancias ideales como reflejan los otros cuadros con sus mares en calma y sus cielos despejados. La serenidad es la capacidad de mantener centrada tu atención, en medio de la dificultad, en aquello que para ti es una prioridad.

Al no estar la mente enfocada en el aquí y en el ahora, sino como suele decirse coloquialmente «dando vueltas por los cerros de Úbeda», no solo perdemos mucha información de lo que está ocurriendo en el presente, sino que, además, quedamos atrapados en eventos que ocurrieron en el pasado o que pueden ocurrir en el futuro, y que suelen asociarse con sentimientos de culpa o con estados de ansiedad.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Para mirar los diarios, hay que bajar los ojos.

los distraídos suelen oxidarse

no hay peor sordo que el que quiere oír

La atención es la caricia más hermosa.

She found that if she paid extremely careful attention to what was around her, really concentrating, and noticing every detail, the terror would fall back.

the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that her children would have to call her three or four times before they could get her attention.

It often struck Nina that women who seemed capable of only limited mental tasks in most situations could retain information regarding other peoples weight for years, sometimes decades. Unlike genuine idiots savants, they couldn't tell you that December 13, 1972 had fallen on a Wednesday. But they could often tell you, within a pound or two, how much you'd weighed that week.

Oh, my goodness-how lovely to have you here," she gushed. "Now please tell me-where is it that you're from?" "I'm from Iowa," I said, flustered by the attention. "Oh, my dear!" She shook her head, her feather bobbing. "Here on the East Coast- we pronounce it O-hi-o!

They listened with flattering attention. He was filled with enthusiasm. He began at the beginning and tried to tell it as he thought Penny would do. Half-way through, he looked down at the cake. He lost interest in the account. "Then Pa shot him," he ended abruptly.

The war had taught both sides that the Scriptures could inspire a threatened people. Unfortunately, it also removed some of the checks and balances that, in other circumstances, kept biblical interpretation responsive to a general Christian framework. America's public culture came to pay less and less attention to the Bible in the decades after the war. One of the reasons was that Christians had paid it the wrong kind of attention before and during the war.

Their surprise was compounded by the fact that these new churches were separated not only by geography but also by subtle, but important, differences in Christian teaching that almost no one had noticed so long as their attention had been fixed on reforming the whole Western church.

Prayer turns us into first-class noticers. It helps us see what God wants us to notice. The more you pray, the more you notice; the less you pray, the less you notice. It's as simple as that. Let me explain how

Pain can be a professor theology. Pain can be a marriage counselor. Pain can be a life coach. Nothing gets our full attention like pain. It breaks down false idols and purifies false motives. It reveals where we need to heal, where we need to grow. It refocuses priorities like nothing else. And pain ins part and parcel of God's sanctification process in our lives.

Obedience starts with a pierced ear. It's tuning into God's frequency and turning up the volume. It's obeying His whispers, even if a thousand people are screaming something different. 'Tell me to what you pay attention,' said the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, 'and I will tell you who are you.' You will eventually be shaped in the image of the loudest voice in your life. Genuine listening is ultimately an act of submission.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is also great because nothing is too small. The Sovereign One cares about every minute detail of our lives.

Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.

If it moves, starch it. If it doesn't move, starch it. If it seems it has enough starch already, it hasn't, so starch it again.

The quickest way to make a lasting negative impression is to waste someone's time:

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there's a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won't work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.