Attention Quotes

Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

That which holds our attention determines our action.

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.

If you aren't just a little depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.

Learning lines is hard for me because I have the attention span of a six year old. That's why being on planes all the time is so useful - I'm forced to learn out of boredom.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.

Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

Once you realize that will power is just a matter of learning how to control your attention and thoughts, you can really begin to increase it.

Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

Art is about paying attention.

Sometimes the best way to get someone's attention is to stop giving them yours.

People are always gonna talk, and to tell you the truth I love it. I love the attention. I do what I do because it puts a smile on my face, and I'm the only one in the world that matters.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.