Top 100 Attention Is Quotes
#1. Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.
Samuel Beckett
#2. So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space.
Jessica Lange
#3. But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#4. Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#5. Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.
Terence McKenna
#6. Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.
Mohsin Hamid
#7. On the whole, people who are always going after more get trapped in the future. They never live in the present, never enjoy it, because their attention is always focused on something that's yet to happen.
A.G. Roemmers
#8. I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.
Janeane Garofalo
#9. Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
Bell Hooks
#10. Personalities seem in many cases to dominate the lucrative endorsement market. But that doesn't upset me. What upsets me is when not enough attention is paid to the product-the game.
Jerry West
#11. Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
Tara Brach
#12. When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
Philippe Halsman
#13. So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see which drives people to travel to strange places.
Rabindranath Tagore
#14. Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.
Chris Brogan
#15. Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.
Johnny Depp
#16. Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.
Terry Pratchett
#17. When attention is focused, minor aches and pains have no chance to register in consciousness.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#18. The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.
Judd Apatow
#19. The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.
Nirmala Srivastava
#20. Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf
#22. Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.
Nirmala Srivastava
#23. Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
A.R. Ammons
#25. For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry.
Mooji
#26. Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.
Robertson Davies
#27. This is the reason the whole 'keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel, use the hands-free handset' idea is a silly thing," Simons said. "Having your eyes on the road doesn't do any good unless your attention is on the road too.
Tom Vanderbilt
#28. Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.
Cassandra Clare
#29. If my attention is wandering, there is somewhere it wants to go, so obviously it does not want to be where I am holding it in the name of some self-styled obligation.
Hugh Prather
#30. The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
Patrick Carney
#31. Attention is the material I work with.
Tino Sehgal
#32. Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God - on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion.
Billy Graham
#33. I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.
Hugh Downs
#34. I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is impossible. I grew up feeling like the little orphan in the family, the one who didn't fit in.
Suzi Quatro
#35. What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.
Deepak Chopra
#36. When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
D. A. Carson
#37. It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.
William Manchester
#38. In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
Gangaji
#39. We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us.
Peter Diamandis
#40. Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.
Luis Suarez
#41. The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.
Chip Heath
#42. Your locus of attention is the single point on which you are able to concentrate your mind. You're human and you can only focus on one thing at a time.
Anonymous
#43. Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.
Paul Sarbanes
#44. The only way for a women to get my attention is to be you
Sylvia Day
#45. Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Anita Brookner
#46. Any actor that's like, 'I hate the fact that I'm getting all of this attention,' is a liar. Especially when it's from the opposite sex.
Donald Faison
#47. Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.
James Hillman
#48. Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
Keith Henson
#49. The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
Wilson Mizner
#50. Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.
Eknath Easwaran
#51. What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
Luc Montagnier
#52. 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.
Brian Eno
#53. We all want to believe that we can do many things at once and that our attention is infinite, but this is a persistent myth.
Daniel J. Levitin
#54. Your ideas, thoughts and intentions are the seeds of creation, and your attention is the powerful tool that drives energy toward the object or outcome that you want to create. Your positive emotion and passionate action add power to the creative process.
Ilchi Lee
#55. Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#56. I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.
Cynthia Nixon
#57. That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented in your imagination.
Aldous Huxley
#58. The mere existence of sanctions is not sufficient to ensure compliance. If no attention is paid to supervision, there is a risk that sectors that resist the requirements will not comply with them or will comply less thoroughly than they should. Regular and thorough supervision enhances compliance.
International Monetary Fund
#59. Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.
Marina Abramovic
#60. It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
David Bowie
#61. Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
Taylor Hicks
#62. If your attention is focused only on the result, then you are no longer in the process. But if you're in the process, then the result is guaranteed.
Deepak Chopra
#63. Intention of seeking attention is an addiction. A vicious cycle which damages your health, finances and relationships. It will NOT improve your self-image, increase your self-worth or fulfill the need of genuine praise.
Maddy Malhotra
#64. The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
Al Gore
#65. Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#66. Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are not given adequate protection. As a result, economic imbalance is produced, and the inalienable rights and dignity of every human person are ignored.
Pope Benedict XVI
#67. Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?
Karen Maezen Miller
#68. One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.
Robert Rhodes James
#69. Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.
Alan Watts
#70. Attention is the beginning of devotion.
Mary Oliver
#71. The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
John Quincy Adams
#72. Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
Marc Anthony
#73. But then, at meals, my attention is pretty well riveted on the foodstuffs.
P.G. Wodehouse
#74. The sad truth is, I am a martyr to my own sense of order. All untidiness, all want of system and regularity, cause me the acutest irritation. My attention is distracted, my composure is upset;
Wilkie Collins
#75. In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.
Robert Moss
#76. Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
Timothy Keller
#77. A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances.
Deepak Chopra
#78. The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.
Charles M. Schwab
#79. When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?
Guillermo Diaz
#80. We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there is no subject so trivial that it will not grow to infinite proportions if one's entire attention is devoted to it.
Leo Tolstoy
#81. In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.
Li-Young Lee
#82. As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
Kailash Satyarthi
#83. But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.
Augusten Burroughs
#84. In the digital space, attention is a currency. We earn it. We spend it
Brian Solis
#85. Letting the radio play on without giving it much attention is very different from actively trying to ignore it.
Russ Harris
#86. And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed ... I don't have daily newspapers, and I like to feel when I get up in the morning my attention is fixed on the work I am going to do.
Reg Butler
#87. The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to the obligations of relationships and unique circumstances.
Fons Trompenaars
#88. Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.
James Arthur Ray
#89. Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#90. Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone Weil
#91. If you feel pain, be attentive to it; don't do anything. Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain.
Osho
#92. What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#93. The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.
Saul Bellow
#94. Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.
Susan Sontag
#95. I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)
Sandra Brown
#96. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
Abigail Adams
#97. We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.
Josh Radnor
#98. It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.
Roger L'Estrange
#99. What my wife desires--and what you should have guessed, had you paid attention--is bookcases. And books, of course, to fill them. Not more decorations or useless items. She wants books.
Cynthia Hand
#100. We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.
Jack Gilbert
