Quotes About Attention

A skilled observer might notice there was something his gaze avoided. The same way you avoid meeting the eye of an old lover at a formal dinner, or that of an old enemy sitting across the room in a crowded alehouse late at night.

Always think about what you're singing, honey.

And remember: speak least if you would be most often heard.

You looked too hard and didn't see enough. Too much looking can get in the way of seeing, you see?

Dejé de prestarle atención. Wil y Sim tenían razón: el tipo estaba mal de la cabeza. ¿Qué pasaría si yo salía corriendo de la habitación, desatrancaba la puerta y la cerraba? ¿Me lo agradecerían los otros maestros?

if I was going to do something, I should take my time and do it right.

Watching her stroll thourgh the crowd was like watching the wind move across the surface of a pond. Except instead of casting ripples on the water, the heads of young men turned to watch her as she passed.

Watching her stroll through the crowd was like watching the wind move across the surface of a pond. Except instead of casting ripples on the water, the heads of young men turned to watch her as she passed.

La música es una amante orgullosa y temperamental. Si le dedicas el tiempo y la atención que se merece, es toda tuya. Pero si la desaíras, llegará un día en que la llamarás y ella no contestará.

De qué sirve la atención? Es más, ¿de qué sirve observar? La gente siempre está observando cosas. Lo que debería hacer es ver. Yo veo las cosas que miro. Soy el que ve.

Demasiado tarde! —exclamó, y por un instante adoptó una actitud infantil—. Has mirado demasiado y no has visto suficiente. Mirar demasiado puede impedirte ver, ¿lo ves?

You could learn to listen just a bit more closely. Useful thing, listening.

She's pretty and charming. Men crowd round her like stags in rut." He made a flippant gesture. "Women are bound to resent it.

There was a long pause as he cracked his knuckles one at a time. "What are the three most important rules of the chemist?" This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.

Estuviera donde estuviese, siempre era el centro de todas las miradas, -Kvothe frunció el seño-. No me interpretéis mal. No quiero decir que fuera llamativa, ni vanidosa. Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que hace que un hombre se acerque al fuego no tiene nada que ver con su resplandor. Lo que te atrae del fuego es el calor que sientes cuando te acercas a él. Con Denna pasaba lo mismo.

speak least if you would be most often heard.

You see?' said Baldini, equally both satisfied and disappointed; and he straightened up. 'You can't do it. Of course you can't. You're one of those people who know whether there is chervil or parsley in the soup at meal-time. That's fine, there's something to be said for that. But that doesn't make you a cook.

Hermes was always moving, even when he stood still. Think of him as a god with ADHD on a double espresso in a room full of shiny objects. Some

The information processing model suggests that there is a limit to the amount of focused mental activity we can engage in at one time.

because the Japanese learners' attention was regularly drawn to form, they were primed to notice the corrective function of recasts. In the more meaning-oriented French immersion classes, however, recasts were less likely to signal to the learner that the teacher was responding to a language error. Thus is likely that learners assumed that the teachers' recast was simply a confirmation of what they had said.

These findings and those from other research led Lyster and Mori to propose the counterbalance hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, feedback is more likely to be noticed if learners are oriented in a direction that is opposite to what they have become accustomed to in their instructional environment. One example of this would be that learners who receive L2 instruction that is focused on meaning/content need feedback that directs their attention to form more explicitly.

learners sometimes fail to notice certain language forms—grammatical morphemes, vocabulary words, syntactic patterns, pragmatic features—when their focus is on understanding meaning.

It doesn't matter if you come from money or you are poor: If your family has already made you feel that you are not worthy, you begin to believe it, and when someone comes along and tells you that you are beautiful/special/wonderful and showers you with attention and gifts, or offers you money when you desperately need it, you are vulnerable and ready to trust

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.