Attention Quotes

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.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

I just think that the media is just making things up. I don't really pay attention.

It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.

Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.

All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy

When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes part of our spiritual path.

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

My attention is the most valuable resource I have. I can protect it with an information diet.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a blog for people with attention spans.

What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell them a story, tell them a story that came from my corazón.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

People say I try to be the centre of attention, but I think I just try to make people laugh.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

No one cares about it more than you. Give it the attention it needs.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.