Quotes About Attention

nada atrapa más rápido nuestra atención que la necesidad de saber qué pasará después.

Cuanto más nos preguntemos qué sucederá después, más atención prestamos. Y cuanta más atención prestemos, más escucharemos, percibiremos y retendremos.

que nada atrapa más rápido nuestra atención que la necesidad de saber qué pasará después.

Hay que introducir tensión entre la expectativa y la incertidumbre. La tensión emocional nos induce a pensar que quizá la cosa vaya así, pero puede salir de otra manera, lo cual nos hace preguntarnos qué pasará luego.» Cuanto más nos preguntemos qué sucederá después, más atención prestamos. Y cuanta más atención prestemos, más escucharemos, percibiremos y retendremos.

The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl!

like many elderly people, she has developed a selective sense of hearing. She ignores me and continues on her own track...

Even then one sensed that it must be a rule. That time could not be something that passed all by itself but was something one had to hold one to. And that, when one let go of it, that moment was very significant.

In the contest for attention between the revival of the world economy and domestic politics, there was no contest at all. The world economy lost. It was an example of the fatal weakness of the Rudd prime ministership; as he sometimes remarked to staff in his first term as prime minister: 'We are policy rich and execution poor.

It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of us need to be reminded we exist.

One of the things that happens to people as they get older, and especially to women on the other side of middle age, is that people forget to notice.

People lack the talent of listening. They miss the experience of a fascinating law of nature: The moment when a narrator is captivated by his own story.

bright blue slacks and sandals, a paparazzi-sized

Glancing at his notes

If you ever thought you were too small to make a difference, you've never shared a bed with a mosquito.

Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.

Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

When he turned around and saw me, he called out and I answered, ëHere I am!í

Midday passed, and they kept on raving until the time of the evening sacrifice. But there was no response; no one answered, no one paid attention.

Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

See that you do not neglect this matter. Why allow this threat to increase and the royal interests to suffer?

O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.