Attention Quotes
You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.
It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.
The only trap I must beware not to fall into, is to think that each day is the same as the next. In fact, each morning brings with it a hidden miracle, and we must pay attention to this miracle.
In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.
People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.
You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.
When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.
Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.
Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention." "Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?
I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.
I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.
I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.
I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.
There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'
If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.
My UK fans are quite similar to the States but they pay much more attention to the details, that I like. They listen, party, and dance moving through the changing moods of the music with me.
And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.
The first book was out and for the first time we were on a book tour. Being the son of an immigrant, I'd never dreamt of being on book tours. Suddenly the attention was huge.
America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.
I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.
ʺWe need someone to get the roomʹs attention,ʺ I said. ʺSomeone not afraid to make a spectacle—I mean, besides me, of course.ʺ
Speaking of Sonya...I was thinking of something earlier. Something Wolfe said." "Why, Adrian. Were you paying attention after all?" "Don't start,Sage," he warned.(p 211)
In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He’s irresistible to me. I mean seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.
Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!
Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.
In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.
The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.