Attention To Quotes

#1. I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

Joan Jett

#2. People should really take care when they vote, and pay more attention to what people say they're going to do - instead of just how they feel about how things are going.

William J. Clinton

#3. When a teacher is paying extra attention to your child, you believe that it's because you raised such an exceptional kid, one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest of her booger-eating friends.

Drew Magary

#4. The only way to consciously deactivate a thought is to activate another. In other words, the only way to deliberately withdraw your attention from one thought is to give your attention to another.

Esther Hicks

#5. The world had paid so little attention to him that he supposed he was dead.
He hoped he was dead.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.

Russell Smith

#7. Everyone's always making fun of him and calling him crazy behind his back, but I can kind of understand how someone would end up that way. I mean, if no one ever pays attention to you telling the truth, then it probably makes sense to try lying for a change.

Amy Reed

#8. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

Susan Sontag

#9. But when you're already swimming in a sea of humiliation deep enough to drown you, it doesn't matter much if somebody throws in another bucketful. It's not worth it to stop and pay attention to that when you need to keep paddling.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#10. Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. Regrettably, many Americans don't pay much attention to the inconsistencies in U.S. foreign policy. People in other parts of the world who feel the impact of those policies play close attention. And they take notes.

Charles Kimball

#12. Don't deny yourself food, but pay attention to what your body needs when your mind craves a block of cheese because you haven't had adult conversation in eight hours.

Kristina Pinto

#13. We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous ... So we use lots of things daily that are dangerous, but we generally pay some attention to how they're used. We tell the cars how fast they can go.

Warren Buffett

#14. The lone attendant wasn't paying any attention to the register; he just stood, mouth half open, holding the remote like maybe if he could change the channel he could change the future. The Moon was gone.

John Joseph Adams

#15. The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate change ... that calls for any tactic that might call attention to the problem.

Jason David Frank

#16. It's easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun out of writing.

Stephen King

#17. 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

#18. Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Eknath Easwaran

#19. To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Confucius

#20. So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#21. We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

David Suzuki

#22. The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

#23. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

Len Evans

#24. I can't concern myself with what's going on with the club or what the media is writing. If you pay attention to those things, that's when you get yourself in trouble.

Don Mattingly

#25. Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

Fulton J. Sheen

#26. The formula is simple enough. If you want more headaches and misery in your life, keep complaining, they're on the way. If you want happiness and joy, give your attention to the things you are grateful for, and then sit back and watch them grow.

D.S. Luca

#27. Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

Bill Pullman

#28. You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Terry Pratchett

#29. Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.

Gail Zappa

#30. The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

Assata Shakur

#31. A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

Wayne Thiebaud

#32. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring for them in a flexible and wise way. In meditation, we pay attention to our body with care and respect.

Jack Kornfield

#33. Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

Viktor E. Frankl

#34. I write every day, including weekends. For writers, there are no weekends. It's just that your family is around, looking mournful, wondering when you're going to pay attention to them.

Janet Fitch

#35. I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

Lauryn Hill

#36. Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.
Each thing only reminds us of what it is
And it's only what nothing else is.
The fact that it's it separates it from every other thing.
(Everything's nothing without another thing that's not it).

Alberto Caeiro

#37. Forget the rain.Only losers pay attention to the weather because they have nothing else to occupy their mind.

K.J. Kilton

#38. The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#39. The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing - or one person - at a time.

Maureen Dowd

#40. Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It was an attempt to express their inner significance or to draw attention to realities that were too elusive to be discussed in a logically coherent way.

Karen Armstrong

#41. My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

Anne Sweeney

#42. Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

Seneca.

#43. These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they live, and they therefore see in it nothing more than an indifferent framework for life, either more or less favorable to production.

Thomas Mann

#44. But without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Jane Austen

#45. Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.

Alexander Payne

#46. In a larger business context, an example of the "Genius of the And" would be a company's constant attention to both long-term growth and quarterly results.

Peter Pande

#47. Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

W. H. Auden

#48. A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

Chuck Close

#49. After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.

George Clooney

#50. You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Eckhart Tolle

#51. I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.

Christine Lakin

#52. I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

David Frum

#53. Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. "Today, class, we are having a special science lesson." Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.

Annie Barrows

#54. Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve page-one, lead-story prominence - unless that civilian is a close relative of one of the casualties.

Robert A. Heinlein

#55. A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

Chris Van Allsburg

#56. Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

Jessica Savitch

#57. What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

Diane Keaton

#58. I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

Nick Earls

#59. Pritkin was saying something, something I should probably be paying attention to since he was looking a little ... stressed.

Karen Chance

#60. When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

Andrew Motion

#61. When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

Tim O'Brien

#62. I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.

Bethany Cosentino

#63. China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia.

Hu Jintao

#64. This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#65. I'm not flirting. I'm just paying extra attention to someone who's very attractive.

Kristen Proby

#66. People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.

Lenny Abrahamson

#67. You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

Ray Bradbury

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

James Surowiecki

#69. I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of myself in the third person. That allows me to manage myself better.

Gretchen Rubin

#70. I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

Adam McKay

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

James Norwood Pratt

#72. The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

James Kelman

#73. Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.

Elliott Abrams

#74. The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you've got to bounce off better work. It's matter of working.

Garry Winogrand

#75. Eleanor Roosevelt had both her admirers and her detractors. And they admired her and detracted from her for many of the same reasons. People who liked her social activism, who thought that she was calling attention to problems that needed solving, were all for her.

William A. Rusher

#76. It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

Ryan Lochte

#77. Still, I wonder sometimes what we are asking when we ask if findings apply elsewhere...Maybe what we are really asking when we ask if a study is "generalizable"is: Can it really be this bad everywhere? Or maybe we're asking: Do I really have to pay attention to this problem?

Matthew Desmond

#78. Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now.

Lou Gaglia

#79. To be honest with you, I'm not sure what a pop tune is. I'm sure if I hear it on the radio, I'd say that's pop or this or that. But, really, what I pay attention to the most is just music that moves me. It's all at least a root-type music instead of a formula.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#80. What we pay attention to defines us,

Anonymous

#81. The price of freedom - of individuality - is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

Greg Bear

#82. Shield required that I stay small and quiet behind it so as not to draw attention to my imperfections and vulnerabilities. It was exhausting.

Brene Brown

#83. We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

Ferran Adria

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

Slash

#85. In both cooperative learning and project work, the teacher encourages children to talk to one another. This helps them pay attention to each other's efforts and ideas. Children take to these kinds of exchanges very readily, but the teacher really needs to encourage this interaction.

Lilian Katz

#86. Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

Barbara Kingsolver

#87. I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

Sanford Bishop

#88. I find that all these subjects that I'm dealing with tend to lead me to religion and politics one way or another. It's not something that I necessarily want to address, but it seems like it's screaming at me to pay attention to it.

Robert Longo

#89. 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

#90. Don't judge yourself; simply return your attention to what's in front of you right now.

Deepak Chopra

#91. We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

Lane Evans

#92. I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Peter Greenaway

#93. Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#94. I think God pays attention to our hearts and enjoys when people want to get close to Him. He knows our sadness and the brokenness we want to hide from Him, and He sends people to look for us.

Bob Goff

#95. The flawed must be quiet; they must not bring attention to their aberrations.

Olukemi Amala

#96. Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential.

Ed Catmull

#97. I don't really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.

Dan Fogelberg

#98. At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For better or for worse, I've never been able to shake this approach.

Alan Dowty

#99. It is known that the taste
whatever it is
is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Edmund Burke

#100. To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.

Paul J. H. Schoemaker