Quotes About Attention

Basil was happy to have me home. He considered the manner in which I ignored him a kind of attention. He and I were not so different.

Learn to revel in the unalloyed loveliness of receiving attention—to do this, you may have to leave your computer keyboard and invite it.

Prudence doth not abate diligence, but guides it in its worke.

If you have the attention of the enemy, you also have the attention of God.

Son, if you think about, read about, and talk about demons, they will show up.

Rob's story reminds me that how we listen is sometimes (always?) more important than what is said. Maybe that's why Jesus was forever asking people if they had ears to hear what he was saying. And I suspect it's also why the very first word of the great Benedictine Rule, which has guided monastic communities for 1,500 years, is this one little word: listen. Fifteen centuries of successful community built on the power of mere listening.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Retraumatized by her own inner voice, she then launches into her most habitual 4F behavior. She either lashes out domineeringly at the nearest person [Fight] – or she launches busily into anxious productivity [Flight] – or she flips on the TV and foggily tunes out or dozes off again [Freeze] – or she self-abandoningly redirects her attention to figuring out how to fix a friend's problem [Fawn].

Feelings and emotions are energetic states that do not magically dissipate when they are ignored. Much of our unnecessary emotional pain is the distressing pressure that comes from not releasing emotional energy. When we do not attend to our feelings, they accumulate inside us and create a mounting anxiety that we commonly dismiss as stress.

Visceral sensations are often physiological correlates of feeling. If you hold your attention on them, if you feel them, you may become aware of their actual emotional content.

Just like the splint sets a broken arm properly, your undivided attention and soothing, non-judgmental language set the conditions for your child, in his or her own time, to rebound to a healthy sense of well-being.

By tending to yourself first, paradoxically, you are in a better position to tend to your child. When you can feel your center, can notice that your breath slows down and you experience the fluidity of changing sensations, you have moved out of a momentary "freeze." Your energy is now available to pay close attention to your child's needs and expression. In this way you will naturally circumvent complicating your child's reactions with your own.

Dependents display selective memory and selective attention. They commonly fail to set priorities effectively, often focusing on activities that have little long-term value, while ignoring those that will impact on their futures.

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

damn sure you don't shoot the

A large part of our excessive, unnecessary manifestations come from a terror that if we are not somehow signaling all the time that we exist, we will in fact no longer be there

Just ignore him and he'll go away, my mother used to say to Gillian when we were young and I bugged her. Just ignore him. All he wants is attention. In retrospect there seems to be something almost cruel about that—to simultaneously acknowledge and refuse someone's desire for attention—especially a child's. All he wants is attention, as if it's bad to want attention, like wanting money or power or fame.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

In fairness to the Almighty, though, it should be noted that lack of attention from God is not necessarily a bad thing, as the former residents of Sodom, Gomorrah, and the entirety of the Earth prior to Noah's construction of an ark would have been able to attest. This would run counter to the desires of many former occupants of London who would have been delighted to see London, upon their departure, erupt in a tower of flame, cleansed by the wrath of God . . . .

She returned her attention to the tall captain. She was annoyed at the way his gaze seemed to be fastened on her breasts.

if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present

Por lo tanto, así es como se construye una historia: • Primero... capte la atención de sus oyentes con un reto o una pregunta inesperados. • Luego... ofrezca a sus oyentes una experiencia emocional al narrar la lucha para superar aquel desafío, o para encontrar la respuesta a la pregunta introductoria. • Por último... dispare la respuesta de sus oyentes con una resolución reveladora, que los llame a actuar.

Los oyentes raras veces se enganchan a un relato si no detectan al principio un cierto reto atractivo.

Por lo tanto, en cualquier negocio, como en el del espectáculo, si uno no consigue transportar emocionalmente a sus oyentes, los perderá.