The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered over layers, the eerie mix of sounds and smells and glimpses neither natural...

The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (…) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

is not the time for being truthful.

The same basic tools we’ve used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we’re telling our stories 140 characters at...

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

He did it (listened) as the world’s most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker’s face, making the other...

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their...

(Da) “Sorry, Son, what was that? I was too busy ignoring you.”(Later) “Sorry, Son, I missed that,” Ma said. “Ignoring you can be a full-time job.

We’re all looking for a bit of recognition, even if it’s the unconscious and hypocritical need for attention over the fact that we’re not publically seeking out attention.

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?

I didn’t pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

I broke things to get attention.

In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.

Not everyone who stares likes us; we may look weird enough to get everyone’s attention.

I love attention. Maybe my desire for attention is a little too out of control, but I’m very honest.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowlegde of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper; outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a...

So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that’s not real, anything that doesn’t associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, ‘Yo, we want to help build...

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn’t keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes....

If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it’s generally a bad film.

Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow bottles of pills and end up in A&E having my stomach pumped? Am...

When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one or two appearances on a show, they think they’re at a certain level that they haven’t reached yet in the...

Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.

Give full attention to what you do. If you give a rapt attention to what you do, you can have what you could have done in 3 hours well completed within 2 hours or less....

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,...

Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say ‘Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.’ Then wait until you get my attention.””Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

No controversy, no PR.

The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.

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.

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.

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...