Quotes about Attention

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember.

The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

If Bible lovers paid as much attention to Leviticus 25 as to Leviticus 18, then we might discover that God is at least as interested in economics as in sex.

In my case, the attention deficit was all mine. I had moved to the country in order to lie down in more blessed fields, to live closer to the Divine Presence that had held me all my life, but I had once again become so busy caring for the household of God that I neglected the One who had called me there. If I still had plenty of energy for the work, that was because feeding others was still my food. As long as I fed them, I did not feel my hunger pains.