Attention Quotes

Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds.

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Know what is behind you, and pay particular attention to anything out of place.

It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

The breath of the mind is attention.

Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

It is an attention-getter. I mean, its hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

Criticism should awaken our attention, not inflame our anger. We should listen to, and not flee from, those who contradict us. Truth should be our cause, no matter in what manner it comes to us.

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.

Give full attention and devotion to each act.

I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.

Where your attention goes, your life goes.

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.

I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.

My car is always black. I really struggle with red cars. I don't want to attract too much cop attention.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Your attention has to be on your Spirit.

I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.

I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

A problem shared is attention gained.

If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.