Attention Quotes

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

It's easy to get lost in the baby. You have to make sure you give your husband attention.

Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.

I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

Perseverance does not equal worthiness. Next time you want to get my attention, wear something fun. Low-riding jeans are hot.

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.