Quotes About Attention

His eyes cut sideways at me in the mirror, and my pulse quickened. It was something to have his attention, even briefly. Like a bright light passing my way before moving on.

There's no secret, just keep your eyes open. Open all the time, but especially when you think you can't be surprised. That's when you learn to pay attention, to listen to your own voice.

To prepare any activity for the child, it is necessary for the parent to think through every detail ahead of time. For example, is the cracker stiff enough to spread the peanut butter on or does it crumble with the pressure of spreading?...All of these difficulties become apparent in the preliminary practice period by the adult prior to a presentation to the child.

by rushing about with our children without giving thought to their needs for developing focus or, equally damaging, by allowing them to become mesmerized in front of a TV or VCR, we destroy both their conscious attention and the development of the will. Parents

I told you but you didn't hear me. You hear what you want.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look then, if they like what they see, they listen.

TV accustoms people to not expecting much.

She knew that alexander was sitting on the bench by the house slightly behind her, and that he was watching her. he was doing that more and more often. Watching her as he smoked. And smoked. And smoked.

War was like weather – always something to talk about.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Don't waste time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

Es uno el que está atento solo a las cosas que le competen y entonces recorta del infinito caos cotidiano justo lo que lo interpela?

El enamorado es como el paranoico, cree que todo le habla a él. Las canciones de la radio, las películas, el horóscopo, los volantes de la calle…

But sibling relationships can also be shaped by the dynamic between the unloving mother and her daughter, most particularly when a mother differentiates between her children, being loving and attentive to one but not to another. In many families, the dynamic will weaken sibling bonds.

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on.

NO SPEECH SHOULD LAST MORE THAN TWENTY MINUTES

The nightmare of Trump is not that he doesn't care what people think; it's that he desperately cares what people think.

Most often, a problem is pointing your attention to an experience you need to have. So instead of looking for a strategy or action that will change the problematic situation, try relaxing into the situation to see what your soul wants you to notice

No matter the origin, it's you who notices an idea and gives it weight; the perception is always happening in you.

To pay better attention to the feeling of the Flow, it helps to merge into a rhythm of rocking and enjoying the phases of the life's creative cycles. Perhaps the experience of Flow has something to do with taking the path of least resistance. By this, I don't mean the lazy way, but the path that is inviting you, the path that already feels like it has your kind of frequency and momentum

And she turned and walked out again, and he stood staring after her, noticing, absurdly, that she was wearing the same high silver-heeled boots that she had had on the day of the crash.

when she heard Ned calling her name on the baby alarm;