Quotes About Attention

Breguswith, distaff tucked under her left arm, rolling her fine-yarn spindle down her thigh with her right, stared absently at the fire, though Hild knew even as her mother's fingers were busy, busy teasing out the yarn, testing its tension, her attention was focused on Ceredig king, who laughed and leaned from his stool and let firelight wink on the thick torc around his neck.

In a country where everyone is trying to be noticed, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

For example, in the airline business people talk about the 'olive factor' – if you forget to put the olive in the martini, the customer thinks you will forget to put the wheels down when you land the plane, and this is not regarded as a good idea.

Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

You don't dare to think ahead too much, for you don't want this melted under the heat of your attention, don't want it gone from your life.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

and that he was astonished that the government paid no attention to it. This gentleman was obviously one of those gentlemen who wish to mix the government into everything, even their daily quarrels with their wives.

Also, the reader will be pleased to know that our hero changed his linen every other day, and in summer, when the weather was very hot, EVERY day, seeing that the very faintest suspicion of an unpleasant odour offended his fastidiousness.

Solokha nodded to everyone, and everyone thought she was nodding to him alone.

They say the most intelligent people pay more attention when buying their boots than when choosing a lifelong companion.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Leave alone your desires and fears and give your entire attention to the subject, to he who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to yourself.

Learn the lines and don't bump into the furniture.

Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

It'll never get well if you pick it.

Clothes are not meant to make people think about what is under the clothes. Clothes are meant to direct attention to what is not under them: merciful hands that serve others in the name of Christ, beautiful feet that carry the gospel where it is needed, and the brightness of a face that has beheld the glory of Jesus.

At last count there were more than four hundred and twenty million guns in America (population 330,000,000). This makes America a Chekhov play, in which a gun shown in Act One must be fired in Act Two. In other words, if you think the next act of American life is going to unfold without gunfire, you're not paying attention.

Your author would also like to explain that he didn't want to put all those guns in his story, but this is a story about America. At last count there were more than four hundred and twenty million guns in America (population 330,000,000). This makes America a Chekhov play, in which a gun shown in Act One must be fired in Act Two. In other words, if you think the next act of American life is going to unfold without gunfire, you're not paying attention.

Experience each moment as if it were the first sensation of its kind ever. Bring childlike interest and curiosity to your present-time experience.

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

We figured that if a promoter took the time to remove all the brown M&M's from the bowl before putting them in our dressing room, it was far less likely he'd screwed up any of the other, really important stuff. It

6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As

We often praise "the ability to multitask." While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to abiding change in your brain maps.

It makes good biological sense for this "machinery" always to be on because babies can't possibly know what will be important in life, so they pay attention to everything.