Attention quotations
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- Julio Cortázar99◆ Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
- Amy Tan99◆ The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.
- Chip Heath99◆ Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.
- Michael Bassey Johnson99◆ It took him a while to figure out that gaining an audience was not the same thing as gaining friends.
- Julia Scheeres99◆ Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.
- Neil Postman99◆ The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
- Orhan Pamuk99◆ To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it's because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that's where phrases like ‘deadly dull' or ‘excruciatingly dull' come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something that's dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient, low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from feeling, or at least from feeling directly or with our full attention. Admittedly, the whole thing's pretty confusing, and hard to talk about abstractly…but surely something must lie behind not just Muzak in dull or tedious places any more but now also actual TV in waiting rooms, supermarkets' checkouts, airport gates, SUVs' backseats. Walkman, iPods, BlackBerries, cell phones that attach to your head. This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do. I can't think anyone really believes that today's so-called ‘information society' is just about information. Everyone knows it's about something else, way down.
- David Foster Wallace99◆ Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of goodwill, all who are attentive to the secret which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness. (14)
- Jean-Yves Leloup99◆ An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
- Criss Jami99◆ I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.
- Sonia Rumzi99◆ Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald99◆ …because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.
- Alan Bradley99◆ An honest enemy is always better than a friend who lies. Pay less attention to what people say and more attention to what they do. Their actions will show you the truth!
- 99◆ It sucks when you are ignored by the one person whose attention means the whole world to you.
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