Sentence examples for focusing one's attention from inspiring English sources

A striking example of this is a phenomenon called inattentional blindness, whereby narrowly focusing one's attention on one visual stimulus makes us oblivious to other stimuli, even though they otherwise may be glaringly obvious, as demonstrated by the infamous 'Invisible Gorilla' study.

According to Parmenides, genuine conviction cannot be found by focusing one's attention on things that are subject to change.

Nothing prevents focusing one's attention on the sounds and audible qualities without attending to the instruments, acts, and events that are their sources, even if each is auditorily available.

Such intuitions will, e.g., count against the thought that one can engage in the initial just acquisition of H by wanting H or by intensely focusing one's attention on H and will support the thought that some sort of physical engagement with unowned materials is necessary for acquiring an entitlement to them.

Instructions for the analytical self-focus condition emphasized thinking about the causes, meanings, and consequences of each item whereas the instructions for the experiential self-focus condition emphasized focusing one's attention on the experience of each item.

A common theme among meditative practices is focusing one's attention on an object.

Or perhaps focussing one's attention on celestial affairs is a reasonable way to deal with 2016.

Partly it's that his subject matter - the old, drecky carnival of the American underbelly, with its drug-dealers, child-abusers, spacey girls and angry guys, its redneck bars and swampy towns - is familiar enough from writers such as Barry Hannah and David Means not to be of all-consuming interest in itself, but rather to focus one's attention on how he goes about making it new.

The sober decor – mahogany bar front and shelves, cool marble floor, brass fittings – serves to focus one's attention on the glass in hand, which you can choose from a few, nicely varied mescita (by-the-glass) options and over a thousand different bottles.

Please note that the first D-MIAT cut focuses one's attention on the higher range of values (Ba > 0.09), where a strong indication exists for the target value of 7. The second cut focuses one's attention on the smaller range of values (Ca < 8.4), where a strong indication exists for the target value of 2. Often these algorithms agree and will both find nothing of interest.

If, for example, one were completely paralyzed but still conscious, one would be very dependent, but presumably could still focus one's attention or this or that thing on which one was dependent, and to that extent would engage in free activity and have the corresponding feeling.