What hurts you so much that you would do this?” Listen to the answer and try to understand what is valid for them. They may have been fighting for your attention, but no one thinks...

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

It is better to pay attention than to have ideas about things.

I don’t like being the center of attention.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

Changes in Meaning:Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They feel hopeless, often believing that the future will be as bad as the past,...

Back in the ’80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the...

Anytime you do something different, a lot of attention gets put on it.

His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn’t neglected enough as a child.

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? … the skeleton of our understanding, … and actually they are the majority. … We have here a problem that...

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome...

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

When you start listening to side talks, you begin to behave like a child, and you must kill the child to sustain the man, the man is always overlooking and philosophical.

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

His attention means nothing if you don’t have his respect.

Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.

At school, everything feels weird. No one looks at me or pays attention to me, no one says hi, no one asks how I am feeling, and everyone is so quite. It’s like I don’t...

Dickens writes that one of his characters, “listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity...

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think...

I’m transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other...

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Now, all writing – all the arts – are a form of ‘Pay attention to me,’ but there’s also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse...

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don’t have to pay any attention it to at all....

The state of our state needs serious attention.

Is it possible that the national psychology emphasizing bigness has caused us to think only in those terms – to the detriment of the small things that have to be done if we are to...

Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a diary of what you do all day and how you feel...

In a variation on James’s recipe for interesting experience–the familiar leavened by the novel–Hobbs’s “art of choosing difficulties” requires selecting projects that are “just manageable.” If an activity is too easy, you lose focus and...

I’ll date you, love…not you and your iPad. I can’t feel plastic palm play; I’m live like Memorex.

When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.

When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made my hands tingle and my thoughts switch to a different hemisphere, right brain...

Shows like ‘Top Chef,’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn’t get out of hand.

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

I don’t pay much attention to sports.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to...

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Walk slowly through the world and pay attention

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

Was Du in Dir nährst, das wächst.

Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

I’ve always tried to work hard. I’m not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do not attend to the things said to them, because they are...