Attention Quotes

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.

We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

Nothing attracts attention like a red dress.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.

Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They’re superficial and I like articulate comedy.

Playing people and position post-flop are definitely my strengths. When I get into a hand, I'm aggressive but I'm also paying attention to my opponent's betting patterns.

A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise.

Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

The more we do, the busier we are, the less we really pay attention.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

Pay attention to how you are feeling, and keep your compass heading set for JOY!

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them.

Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.