The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A child is imprinted not by simply teaching. But their attention is like soft clay. The attention field of adults is stratified.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn’t put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little… — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well sustained attention firmly and repeatedly focused on the feeling of the wish… — Neville Copy Share Image
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
I want the government to focus on the stuff we cannot yet do, like beginning to learn how we can live in… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Focus on today. Don't let what took place yesterday stop you from achieving that dream of yours today. Don't sit and wait… — Josephine Copy Share Image
When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
You aren't always going to make stuff that everybody does. The sooner that you just realize that and accept that, the better.… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“D is for depth of processing. Our fundamental characteristic is that we observe and reflect before we act. We process everything more,… — Elaine N. Aron Copy Share Image
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Through concentration and meditation, you become the boss of your mind, and gain the ability to tell it when to be active… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Am I being productive, or just active? Am I inventing things to do, to avoid the important? Focus on demonstrating results instead… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
I'll stop trying to keep our convo going, stop trying to get your attention because I'm so sick of everything. I no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If there was one great benefit to the whole practice of art, it was to focus him in the “now,” where the… — Christina McKenna Copy Share Image
Since children spend many of their waking hours at school, eating up to two meals a day there, we need to place… — Joshua Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a… — Paige VanZant Copy Share Image
If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action.… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Everything I've done after football requires so much less focus, less work, less stress, it's kind of like a weight has been… — Howie Long Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought… — Nancy Johnson Copy Share Image
“All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or lovingkindness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I take action in the direction of my dreams, passions, talents, and interests. I know that I have a much-needed life purpose,… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Every girl will come with pros and cons. Some people will choose to focus on the worst in some of your options… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
“Artists, on the other hand, talk to determine what works, what does not, and why. Their focus is more on the micro;… — David Salle Copy Share Image
