Quotes of: Attention Keyword

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

Indiscrete Thoughts

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away! Never be impressed by calling attentions that tell you to give up! Insist, Resist and Persist to the end!

Shaping the dream

Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.

Siddhartha

I don’t do magic. I turn your attention back to Friday night and the big-ass sword I was carrying. My job is to run and swing.

Stone Guardian

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

The Subtle Knife

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Fais attention à tes pensées et à tes paroles, car elles répondent avec des évènements semblables

La Main De L'Ange - Comment Vaincre Ses Démons Intérieurs

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

Life of Pi

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

His attentive treatment of her had nothing to do with the presumption that she was weak, and everything to do with the conviction that she was valuable.

Once Upon a Road Trip

It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

Palimpsest

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

Power Through Prayer

How in the world did they just jump from politics, to a ball, and now to daimon attacks? And here I’d thought I had the attention span of an ant on Red Bull.

Pure

The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone.

Pastoral

Give full attention to life’s moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons From Solo Moments in New York

As soon as he had departed she directed her attention to the others. “I need a shielded containment box, radiation gloves and a micro welding torch. And a crescent wrench.

Vertigo