Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.
Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.
There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
People pay little attention to banner ads - in fact, everyone dislikes them - and that leads to infinitesimally small click-through rates that make marketers unhappy.
The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.
I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
I'd request politicians to stop diverting attention from the actual issues that affect the country. Please stop resorting to soft targets like singers and musicians as scapegoats.
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
We've always been huge fans of the Dixie Chicks. They talked about subject matter that people didn't necessarily want to talk about and made people pay attention to issues.
Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.
If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
