We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.
I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
I never pay any attention. I'm sure it's not such a good way to be, but I don't really follow market research.
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.
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
