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#attention

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You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.


Leo Kottke


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When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.


Jiddu Krishnamurti


#attention #being #completely #give #heart

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.


Andy Warhol


#any #attention #inches #just #measure

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.


Booker T. Washington


#attention #day #every #every day #founded

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.


Allen Weinstein


#civic #concerns #democratic #dependence #education

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.


Laura Ingalls Wilder


#folks #get #more #organization #organized

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.


Al Yankovic


#attention #been #craves #i #kind

We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words--and own passages that speak to us. (p. 41)


Thomas Newkirk


#reading #writing #art

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 get bored. If it's too hard, you become anxious, overwhelmed, and unable to concentrate. Tellingly, one group is distinguished by its zeal for the kind of work that requires you to give it all you've got: high achievers particularly relish taking on risky projects that have only a 50/50 chance of success.


Winifred Gallagher


#attention #focus #art

Try to forgive by trying to understand how it would feel to be in the other’s shoes. If someone hurts you – ask them - “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 of themselves as attackers, only defenders! So don’t judge their ways, only set them free by giving them a chance to speak. You may both learn a lot from your kindness and courage in asking for the truth. But even if nothing changes, release it, remember that you both have a right to be who you choose to be. When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, so ask if you seek to understand, or simply let them be!


Jay Woodman


#courage #forgive #judge #judgements #kindness






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