Attention Quotes

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

Even with revivals, I dont really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new.

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.

When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?

The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.

At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

Walk really, really carefully. It's not complicated, but if you mess up, you'll die, so pay attention.

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.

One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.

Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

If I was to listen and pay attention to everyone that criticized me, I'd stay home under the bed.

I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

Gestures come first! Before we're consciously aware of our thoughts, we start to gesture. Pay attention to your gestures, and others', and you can become a more powerful communicator.

I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

Pay attention to the inner voice that tells you when something feels right. Much of your creative problem-solving occurs at an unconscious level.

I don't like piracy but if anybody's concerned about piracy, why don't they pay attention to our role in it?

I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?

I spend the first half of my day dealing with Europe because of the time difference. Then in the evening my website gets my undivided attention.

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

I've got the attention span of a child.

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.