Attention Quotes

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

The Warrior of the Light pays attention to small things because they can severely hamper him.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.

I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.

The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment.

Love happens when we pay attention

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

....maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.

Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.

So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide.

A college president is like the lawn mower at a cemetary: he has a lot of people under him, but they don't pay much attention to him

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.

I'm not a long movie person. I have a very short attention span. If you give me a 90-minute movie, that's perfect. When it gets to be two hours, that's a little bit too long for me.

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

So pay attention, it's not hard to decipher, And after the horns, you can check out the Phifer

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.