Quotes About Attention

A missanga, todos a vêem. Ninguém nota o fio que, em colar vistoso, vai compondo as missangas. Também assim é a voz do poeta: um fio de silêncio costurando o tempo.

Chama-se a isso o estratagema do relógio. O ponteiro dos segundos saltita tantas vezes que ninguém repara no seu movimento.

MacKaye never told anyone to get off the stage. Sometimes this encouraged a rapid and irreversible descent into chaos, but usually it just meant a steady stream of stage divers and kids who just wanted a few seconds of attention while they did some silly dance for their buddies. Anarchy, it seemed, could work.

One accident that kills, say, 10 people gets far more attention than 10 accidents that kill 1 each. The 876 people each year who die on US tracks usually have little publicity, but imagine if they all occurred at once. . . .

Even in those historical moments when men look back and see patriotism and sacrifice as the driving forces of history, 'the majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

In a close-up, choose just one eye of the actor you're playing opposite, don't skip between the eyes or you will just look shifty;

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

That seemed to be the way of the world these days; get a few basic details of an event or incident, then craft a narrative around it. It was not about spreading information, but getting clicks and attention.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

the devil's purpose in sowing revolution in the Church is to throw her into confusion. Thus, her attention is distracted and her energies scattered. In this way, we are weakened at precisely the moment of history when we need to be strongest.

What are the biggest challenges the organization is facing (or will face in the near future)? Why is the organization facing (or going to face) these challenges? What are the most promising unexploited opportunities for growth? What would need to happen for the organization to exploit the potential of these opportunities? If you were me, what would you focus attention on?

you attract much more attention and a higher level of scrutiny than before.

Quality is just a word, and an empty word at that, if it doesn't include harmony, balance, passion, intention, attention. "Continuous improvement for its own sake is a waste of time. "Life is what a business is about, and life is what this work is about. Coming to grips with oneself, in the face of an incredibly complex world that can teach us if we're open to learn.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.

Those who still think that listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

His eldest daughter, Alice, once described her father as wanting to be the "bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral."1

Your attention please. This is not a rehearsal. This is not a drill. This is your life. Make the most of it. Become a hero. Bring the ultimate cosmic journey – your journey – to its appointed end. Become God.

He wondered if modern society, with its flood of information and tempest of noise, was only making us dumber.

While July read, Tom listened with his eyes closed. This was a trick of his whenever he wanted to concentrate on what he heard. By shutting down one information flow he thought to heighten his attention on the other. However, he was never known to put his fingers in his ears when he wanted to see something clearly.

If you're doing something you have to concentrate on you can't also be thinking about doing it, and if you're thinking about doing it then you can't actually be doing it. Yes?" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

gets as much attention as Bond

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