Attention Quotes

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

We’re all beautiful. We all deserve attention.

We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

The audience loves it when you pay attention to details.

. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd be willing to jump through hoops to win and keep them.

I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.

Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

Whatever adventure you are into, whatever you are doing, your attention should be on your spirit.

A little attention, a pat on the head, and a kind word every now and then is all your dog asks.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace. :-)

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.