Quotes About Attention

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to them... Being steady with mindfulness as an anchor for all the changes we go through is the way we practice forbearance. And you can employ this same method anywhere anytime: just pay close attention to the details of what is going on internally and externally. Don't flinch, don't run away. Trust what happens. Take your stand there." (71)

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.

Whenever we read anything, we find our attention moving in two directions at once. One direction is outward or centrifugal, in which we keep going outside our reading, from the individual words to the things they mean, or, in practice, to our memory of the conventional association between them. The other direction is inward or centripetal, in which we try to develop from the words a sense of the larger verbal pattern they make.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

Pobre y desnuda vas, filosofía, dice la turba atenta al vil negocio.

Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

Seni tan?madan önce a?açlar?n çiçek açt??? ve yaprak döktü?ü mevsimleri hep kaç?r?rd?m derdi. Resim yapmay? sevdi?im halde denizin mavisini bilmezdim, yapra??n ye?ilinin her mevsimde de?i?ti?ine dikkat etmemi?tim...

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.

It seems inevitable that people who can't read are going to lean more toward judging candidates on the way they look and sound than on what they claim they stand for. Even people who can read and are educated are apt to pay more attention to good looks and seductive lies than they should. And no doubt the new picture ballots on the nets will give Jarret an even greater advantage.

They say detailed news doesn't matter. Since we can't change the stupid, greedy, vicious things that powerful people do, they think we should try to ignore them. No matter how many times we're forced to admit we can't really hide, some of us still find ways to try. Well, we can't hide. So it's best to pay attention to what goes on. The more we know, the better able we'll be to survive.

I would never have been a good scientist—my attention span was too short for that.

Mil cosas solicitan a la vez nuestra atención y ninguna de ellas logra retenernos; así la vida se nos vuelve arena entre los dedos y las horas humo en el cerebro.

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

One of our most important challenges in life is to remain mindful of who we are and what we are doing. To keep this awareness present all the time is a great support for spiritual growth. One aspect of a spiritual life is to live consciously. For that, we need to be as fully aware as possible. Without mindfulness, we end up sleepwalking through life. We act without realizing what we are doing. – 17th Karmapa

Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you're looking at.

Annushka also needs to feel someone's gaze on her, to feel that her crying is witnessed by someone, to feel it isn't just addressing a void.

It occurred to me that every unjustly inflictd death deserved public exposure. Even an Insect's. A death that nobody noticed was twice as scandalous.