Attention Quotes

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has ...

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more ...

Children naturally ask all kinds of questions and take a long time to tell their stories, and in mil...

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as ...

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I ...

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay att...

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skel...

We know from several statements of Knecht's that he wanted to write the former Master's biography, b...

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from...

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.

You are now listening to me; you are not making an effort to pay attention, you are just listening; ...

What you feed in yourself that grows.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding att...

All that mattered was him looking at me

He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...

The breath of the mind is attention 128

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the...

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endl...

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in th...

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

I should leave, she told herself once or twice, to savor the thought of their surprise, their regret...

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

All night my heart makes its wayhowever it can over the rough groundof uncertainties, but only until...

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the at...

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one ...

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, ra...

Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problem...

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to ...

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

One of the greatest gifts you can give isyour undivided attention.

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compass...

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get t...

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

The true art of memory, is the art of attention

That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the princi...

There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fa...

Why is the determination to fight against a prejudice a sure sign that one is full of it? Such a det...

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right qu...

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never...

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 20...

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He h...

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is...

I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.

Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar b...

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or wh...

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to b...

Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention. It's a...

They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused ...

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness...

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak ...

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen w...

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

When you’re kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you ...

Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the tim...

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since ...

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the othe...

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special att...

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bo...

Humans don’t make sense.”“If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been pa...

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm pay...

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman'...

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the f...

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into s...

Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed ...

There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my ...

To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of wha...

However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on anoth...

The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you ...

To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a p...

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

In India they tell a fable about this: There was once a great devotee of Vishnu who prayed night and...