Attention Quotations | Page 8

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.

The reality of it is you have to be over the top if you want to be noticed.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.