Attention Quotes

The most important key to a more romantic life: you have to be willing to pay attention

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

I love men and I like to get their attention.

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.

Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone.

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

Attention is the currency of leadership.

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.

When you treat people well, those same people might not treat you the same way. But if you pay attention, you'll notice that Allah has sent OTHER people who treat you even better.

In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?

If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention.

Friendship demands attention.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

It's worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don't have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.

That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.

One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life.

Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume

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

I don't know if we'll ever get used to the attention from the fans.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.