Attention Quotes
I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.
It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.
Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.
I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.
Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.
People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects
Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?
The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.
It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.
If you pay too much attention to the criticism of the one who is inferior, then you must endure the constraints of the plane to which you have descended without feeling hurt.
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
A father who denies a child of his attention is no better than a fully-equipped medic who watches idly as a soldier bleeds to death.
Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.
I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.
How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.
Now the best thing is to put attention to your Spirit. If you start putting your attention to Spirit, the sweetness of the Spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful.
The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!
I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.
Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!
Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.
You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.