Quotes of: Attention-spans Keyword

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.

Walter Murch

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Audre Lorde

These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise, aerobics, martial arts for those who prefer con...

Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life

Reality is subjective, and there’s an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as ‘important’ only if ‘tis sober and severe. Sure and still you’re right about your Cheerful Dum, only they’re not so much happy as lobotomi...

Jitterbug Perfume

Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make of the hollow world a fuller, messier, prettier place...

Mirror Mirror

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Chapterhouse: Dune

It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.

Don't Turn Around

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

The End of Your Life Book Club

We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

Fight Club

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

The Fault in Our Stars

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

Foxglove Summer

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

Thinking happens in your heart. Put your attention in your heart. Ask the questions from your heart. Then listen to your heart.

The Gift of Gratitude

You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Often, under the layers of our maturity is a child’s insecurity screaming for love and attention.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

Back Roads

From a very early age onwards, people's attention had been attracted to the volatile substances, characterized by strong smells or flavours, which are among the large variety of substances which form within plants; these were used partly for therapeu...

Otto Wallach