Quotes About Attention

I have always believed that if I pay strict attention while I am out in the physical world—and for me that often meant the natural world—the physical world will give me everything I need to tell my stories" (78). —Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

It's hard for anybody to put their finger on the moment when life changes from being something that is nearly all in front of you to something that happened while your attention was elsewhere.

I'd rather be looked over than overlooked.

Can you answer that question, Madelaine?" asked Miss Green suddenly. Maddy jerked herself away from her dreams. "No, Miss Green." "Can you if you think carefully?" "No," said Maddy. "Did you hear the question?" "No," said Maddy. "Have you any interest whatsoever in what I've been saying?" "No," said Maddy truthfully,

You might as well humor me and let the Band-Aid boys check you out.

Jos on vain lakannut kiinnittämästä huomiota ja syönyt kakkua, tuntuu helpommalta antaa itselleen anteeksi ja syödä tiedostavasti taas seuraavalla aterialla.

Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.

Tuning out no longer means spacing out; it means tuning in to something else.

You, don't hook everywhere. ?#?iampm?

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I try not to think about how easily I slipped through a crack in the floor. It's like, if you were walking down the street with your friends, and suddenly one of them slipped down an open manhole, you'd notice, wouldn't you? I certainly would! I mean . . . I think I would. I hope I would. Or maybe we're all so focused straight ahead, people slip away when we're not looking.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

History is clear that, in most endeavors, success is a product of uncompromising attention to purpose.

He was a strange lad—with a peculiar, dreamy air about him that made some think he was dim-witted. But he wasn't stupid—he just paid attention to other lessons. Bones

God's love is God's attention.

Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary. It is through our imagination that we discern possibilities and options. Yet imagination is no mere blank slate on which we simply inscribe our will. Rather, imagination is the deepest voice of the soul and can be heard clearly only through cultivation and careful attention. A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

Always consider the level of competing distractions before you call your dog to come when he's still in training. We find it useful to think of come training like levels of mathematical ability.

Is it like a Harry Potter thing?" He turned his head then. "A what?" "A Harry Potter thing," she said again. "You know, don't say Voldemort's name because you might attract his attention?" He considered it. "You mean the children's book." "I have got to get you to watch more movies," she said. "You'd enjoy these. Yes, I mean the children's book.

Anyone who offends me deserves to hear exactly how they trespassed—or needs to be lulled into a false sense of security before the sneak attack when they aren't paying attention.

Beauclaire focused his attention, and I felt his magic send shivers of ice along my arms.

But his attention was all for my mother. "She's married," I warned him. "And if you call her a rude name, she'll shoot you with her pretty pink gun and I'll spit on your grave." He considered me a moment and started to open his mouth. Adam said, "Ben. Meet Mercy's mother, Margi." Ben paled, closed his mouth, and opened it again. But nothing came out. I didn't think Ben was used to meeting mothers.

Just then Warren's breathing, which part of me was listening to with rapt attention, stopped. Adam heard it too, crouching as if there were an enemy in the room. Maybe there was. Death is an enemy, right?

Love, like any other living thing, needs to be fed. Only if you starve it will it die.