Quotes About Attention

Research is showing that so-called multitasking is a myth. The human brain cannot perform two different tasks at the same time.

Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

Reading, after all, is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction, a matter of engagement in a society that seems to want nothing more that for us to disengage.

Facebook, with its flow of useless particularity, makes it impossible to forget, thus impossible to remember.

As Mrs. Moe explained how triangle ABC was congruent to triangle ABD, my mind kept wandering back to Mr. Bowman's smile. And his arms. And his sharply creased dark gray cotton pants. Mr. Bowman was congruent to the best-looking guy on any late-night cable drama.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

If you believe in coincidence, then you aren't paying attention.

Yes, I know this narrative is crowded with beautiful women - Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Maycott, Mrs. Lavien, Mrs. Bingham. We might form a cricket team of beautiful women. I cannot help it if they are the ones who excite my notice and so trouble myself to describe.

Abraham Wald pointed out how even the best minds of the US military can be fooled by the winners. His analysis showed that a careful study of survivors can tell us a lot about the non-survivors, who are sometimes difficult or impossible to observe. Most importantly, he demonstrated that we should pay close attention to both survivors and non-survivors before drawing conclusions.

Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God dwells in the details.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

God finally caught his eye.

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

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There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.