Attention Quotes
The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening.
Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.
Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.
It shifted attention away from that and Ive never been someone who liked the attention from the media anyway.
Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
I don't know, I don't pay attention to critics anyway. They either like me or they don't, you know what I mean? I am too long in the tooth to worry about that.
I love to work out. I need to work out! Nothing makes me feel better than walking out of a spin or barre class knowing my body and mind got some attention.
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.
I think Canadians, they may be offended that I pointed out that they're stalking us. But at least we're paying attention.
In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
It's important for people to try and be more like Marco Polo in how he explored the world, very few of us nowadays pay attention to cultures and try to understand them.
When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.
There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.
Cabel gives her a quizzical look. "I am totally not getting enough attention here.
I’m not a follower. I never have been. But I’ll definitely become someone I’m not for a few hours if it’ll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.
Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.
I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
The wisdom of God is vaster than the wisdom of man. Failure to pay attention to it will have ramifications.
One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.
Silly trends don't last long. A lot of this nonsense that pops up, I don't even really pay attention because it'll be gone in a flash.
Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.