Attention Quotes

We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

The individual attention and care that I personally experienced and witnessed given to other players totally blew me away.

Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention.

They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.

We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism.

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

I like to innovate. To me, if it's worth doing something, it's worth doing it well. Do something that's going to demand attention and notice.

Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

Attention to detail is crucial in my roles as a real estate developer and principal of a lifestyle brand. Fine jewelry is especially intricate and requires a very well trained eye.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

WikiLeaks is a important focus of our attention.

I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

Before I realized I had faults, I was already joking about it, to get attention. By the time I went to high school, I had a pretty practiced routine down.

There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues.

I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.