#attention

Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#life #live #live-in-the-here-and-now #live-in-the-moment #live-now

Question for your life: If love existed an octave above where your vocal range ended, would you buy a dog whistle to get my attention? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dog-whistle #life #love #octave #question

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#love #snow #sun #love

Sophia was asked to speak to the students of a local medical school. “Sophia, what do we need to be better doctors?” the students asked. “Doctors,” Sophia said, “need strong stomachs and strong powers of observation.” Then she opened a canister. The putrid smell quickly moved through the classroom. Sophia stuck a finger in the jar, pulled it up, and then licked it. She passed the jar around encouraging each doctor in training to do the same. Each did, and though many felt nauseas, no one got sick. “You all have very strong stomachs,” she said. “But your powers of observation need some work.” “What do you mean?” they asked. “We did just what you did.” “There is one difference,” she replied. “The finger I dipped in the jar was not the finger I licked. ↗

— David W. Jones

#focus #perception #wisdom #love

Boys seek attention, men demand respect. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#attention-seekers #respect #men

Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so much work to do. Men didn't understand that there was nothing big enough to exempt you from your obligations, which began as soon as the sun rose over the paper company and ended only after you'd finished the day's chores and fell exhausted into sleep against the background noise of I-94. ↗

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

#men #obligations #passion #women #work

Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is "absorption," which describes a particular style of focusing. If you get a high score in this trait, you're naturally inclined toward what he calls a "respondent" or "experiential" way of focusing. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#attention #experiential #focus #nature

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 Postman

#commercials #media #television #media

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. ↗

— Amy Adams

#assume #attention #attitude #because #enough

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into. ↗

— Michael P. Anderson

#caught #could #i #into #really