attention quotes

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

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?

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

Social media can be very effective in creating movements. In the beginning, that is how I first got attention.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I don’t really read a lot of newspapers. I don’t pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I’ve had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Software options proliferate extremely easily – too easily, in fact – because too many options create tools that can’t ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one’s mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.