We become what we pay attention to.
Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.
Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.
People dont pay attention until they have to
The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!
Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.
Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.
I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.