Quotes About Attention

#1. When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.

Frederick Lenz

#2. What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily schedule.... This is what receives your care and attention
an by definition, your love.

Wayne Muller

#3. 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

#4. It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

Anna Chlumsky

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

James Norwood Pratt

#6. 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

#7. I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.

Cam Newton

#8. Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. 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

#10. Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It chuckled. "Why do you think I'm chatting with you?

Jonathan Stroud

#11. 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.

Bobby Flay

#12. When I looked at the addictive qualities of video games and how they captivate people's attention, I decided to try the same technology for enhancing well-being.

Deepak Chopra

#13. George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Ilka Chase

#14. The universe likes speed, focus and dedication. Whatever we put our attention on, drives miracles towards us without much efforts.

Robin Sacredfire

#15. 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

#16. People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.

Mother Teresa

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail!

Matthew Hussey

#21. When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.

Billy Graham

#22. War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can't feel it, you weren't paying attention. And if you weren't paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.

Clint Van Winkle

#23. We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

Lou Brock

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

Lou Gaglia

#25. In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

Tim Frick

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

Tim O'Brien

#27. I kept hearing about mindfulness, which isn't a new subject. In fact it's rooted in ancient Buddhism. Wikipedia defines Mindfulness as "The intentional, accepting, non-judgmental focus of one's attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment.

KP Croft

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.

Colin Meloy

#31. 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

#32. My attention was riveted to Keirran.
He shot me a pained, embarrassed wince. "Yeah. I was going to tell you ... sooner or later. There just wasn't a good time." He paused, his voice going very soft. "I'm sorry ... Uncle.

Julie Kagawa

#33. And in our dark days, with so many threatening clouds on the horizon, he concluded, we puff up a story like this to drug people, to distract their
attention from the serious problems and
divert them with a Romeo-and-Juliet
story, one scripted, however, by a soap opera writer.

Andrea Camilleri

#34. If you have a beautiful face you don't need fake boobs to get anyone's attention

Paris Hilton

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

Kristen Proby

#36. Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention of the people who were not invited.

Marcel Proust

#37. I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

Tamsin Greig

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.

Daniel Goncalves

#41. The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.

Lucian Freud

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

James Surowiecki

#43. She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention ... She feels in herself that she is becoming some event.

Paul Valery

#44. 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

#45. You have my attention.
I know you want a motorcycle or you will think you want one for a while.
Well, I don't have one.
But I have an unusual heart.
And you can have it if you want it.

Jamie Tworkowski

#46. The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone.

Andre Alexis

#47. Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

Javier Bardem

#48. An open and receptive attention to and awareness of what is occurring in the present moment

Matt Peplinski

#49. 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

#50. In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

Pete Wentz

#51. 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

#52. Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

Berkeley Breathed

#53. Even of his sins the Enemy does not want him to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better the Enemy is pleased.

C.S. Lewis

#54. Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation - choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

Ian Gawler

#55. What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

Richard L. Evans

#56. Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

Ethan Zuckerman

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. You can't get attention of one who focused on himself.

Toba Beta

#60. The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

Erri De Luca

#61. Whatever you put your attention on becomes energized.
Whatever you take your attention away from dwindles

Deepak Chopra

#62. He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

Marcus Aurelius

#63. Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

Joe Morton

#64. So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

Dave Eggers

#65. My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

Amy Waldman

#66. Positive reviews are energizing. Negative reviews are teaching moments and the writer must pay attention, gleaning what is helpful and ignoring the personal jabs.

Liz Cowan

#67. The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

Bryant McGillns

#68. I mostly lived in my dimension
Built up of fantasies and dreams,
Hardly a seeker of attention,
Yet, I preferred to act on whims.

Tatyana K. Varenko

#69. Learning to slow down and pay attention: A book for kids about ADD.

Ellen B. Braaten

#70. I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

Tom Hanks

#71. Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#72. The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

Nick Flynn

#73. In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.

Molly Tarlov

#74. 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

#75. Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not
enslaved by tradition and memory.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#76. 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

#77. Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

Howard Rheingold

#78. The suffragettes realized the power of getting arrested and going to prison and harassing politicians and making a nuisance of themselves. It got them a lot of attention. What they never did was set out to endanger human life except for sacrificing themselves.

Sarah Gavron

#79. From what I've found a lot of people on Facebook are desperate for recognition and social interaction. They want me to find them, to gaze into their lives and notice them. PAY ATTENTION.

Peter Jelen

#80. What we pay attention to defines us,

Anonymous

#81. It's okay to not be okay," she says. "When you've been through things - whatever those things are - and you don't allow yourself to not be okay, then you only make it worse. Our problems will tear us apart if we try to ignore them. They demand attention because they need it.

Victoria Schwab

#82. 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

#83. But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

Dave Eggers

#84. 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

#85. 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

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

Slash

#87. If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth.

Seth

#88. Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

Swami Vivekananda

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Robert Andrews Millikan

#92. The good thing about playing the guitar: You can take on different kinds of music. I'm always doing something different from the last thing I did because I have the shortest attention span on earth.

Ryan Adams

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

Sanford Bishop

#94. I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

Alain De Botton

#95. She puckered her bubble gum mouth until its exaggerated sensuality drew attention away from the blood-blue crescents beneath her eyes. "My bags may be packed, but I haven't left town. No wonder Ricki finds me irresistible. She's only human." Leaning

Tom Robbins

#96. A nice-looking boy pays attention, says the right things, looks at you just a certain way. You're not smart anymore.

J.D. Robb

#97. Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Marc Anthony

#98. and create many more choices for ourselves. Without conscious attention, we are simply dancing around in the cage of our habitual patterns, thinking we are free

Anonymous

#99. That other woman may have entered his thoughts every now and then, but only as a regret. I was the one who had his full attention now.

S.J. Pajonas

#100. I learned to observe other people - that's sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill.

Natalie Portman