Quotes About Attention

Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

was just that she felt you were missing the main point—you were focused on one thing when you should have been focused on another.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally," writes Kabat-Zinn. "This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of present-moment reality.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Critisize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.

One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three.

pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are The plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

We would be better to focus more on acts and less on looks. Hedging puts us into the landscape intimately. It makes us pay attention. When we pay attention, we are repaid in many ways.

You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attention upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?

Politics How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention.