“What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.” EndsEnjoyDecisionPayAttentionCareersPlayerTracking Author:Graham Nelson
“The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention.” WorldEndsAttentionAwarenessBuddhismMajorsTransitionEnd Of The World Author:Frederick Lenz
“One, who studies the ways of power, seeks to end the imprinting process because in imprinting we loser power, we lose attention; we are formatted to do certain things.” WayEndsCertainProcessLosesAttentionStudyAwarenessBuddhismLoserImprinting Author:Frederick Lenz
“The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.” WorldLongEndsAttentionPlentySupposed To BePay AttentionWarningEnd Of The WorldSlidesEquilibriumTippingTipping Point Author:Elizabeth Bear
“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.” EndsAttentionEnd Of Life Author:Mary Oliver
“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.” LooksIdeasEndsSchoolRememberCultureParentAttentionGrewGrew UpTablesPhonesDinnerCellsTeenagerLook UpDistractionSwingsCell PhoneToddlerDinner TableBlackberriesPickupsSchool Days Author:Sherry Turkle
“He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.” WayDifferentEndsChoicesAttentionWatchesToo MuchJourneyLaysAccidentsDifferent WaysComparisonPausesProbabilityAdjustment Book:The Rambler Source: The Rambler
“Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.” PeopleEndsAmericaMovingOrderEffortAttentionSucceedMoving ForwardImpulseAbandonedElsewhereVigorousPrecisionUndertakingsShort LivedOrder To Succeed Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.” MayEndsLostAttentionCompassionMassDrawsSeekingTreatedManipulationDistressDistributionSpectrumBlanketDecreasePseudoManipulativeAttention Seeking Author:Anthony Daniels
“Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.” HumansEndsUseSpiritPowerfulAttentionPracticeTechnologyFocusMeditationExerciseToolsResponsibleExtraordinaryMost PowerfulEmailHuman SpiritBlackberries Author:Linda Stone
“The conscious mind is a maelstrom of fleeting thoughts, images, sensations, feelings, conflicting desires, and doubts; barely able to confine its attention to a single clear objective for a microsecond before secondary thoughts begin to adulterate it and provoke yet further trains of mental discourse. If you do not believe this, then attempt to confine your conscious attention to the dot at the end of this sentence without involving yourself in any other form of thinking, including thinking about the dot.” IfsThinkingMindBelieveEndsFeelingsAbleFormDesireAttentionClearDoubtConsciousTrainIncludingSentencesObjectivesSensationsProvokingDiscourseFleetingInvolvingDotsConscious MindMaelstrom Author:Peter J. Carroll