Your Attention Quotes

#1. If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

Russell Banks

#2. The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

Nancy Kress

#3. You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

Wallace D. Wattles

#4. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world's countries, being gay is not a crime.

Vladimir Putin

#5. Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention. Anyway, my grandfather and his emotions were never really on speaking terms.

Michael Chabon

#6. Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

Frederick Buechner

#7. It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.

Malaika Arora Khan

#8. Set fire to cities and nations, to hearts and minds, to the very core of every human spirit. Make sure your words seep into the skin of the reader, leaving trace minerals that sustain the ailing human shell. Make them pay attention. Set fire to the soul. Anything less is an abomination to creation.

Susan Marie

#9. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Elbert Hubbard

#10. Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and being to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of GRATITUDE will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose

Wallace D. Wattles

#11. Where your attention goes, your energy flows.

Kevin Horsley

#12. Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.

Barbara Damrosch

#13. You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

Gary Zukav

#14. As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.

Jim Cramer

#15. Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Deepak Chopra

#16. In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

Pepper Schwartz

#17. Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

Dan Millman

#18. This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention.

Esther Hicks

#19. The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

#20. I need a name."
"No one knows your name."
"Do you plan on yelling 'hey you' every time you need to get my attention?

Anna Durand

#21. So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

Eckhart Tolle

#22. There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

Oprah Winfrey

#23. You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span.

J Dilla

#24. Thoughts become things through action. The most powerful tool for creating changes in your life is attention and action. No action means no creation.

Ilchi Lee

#25. Whatever you put your attention on in this life, will increase in your life. As you put your attention on angels, they will begin increasingly to make their presence known to you.

Denise Linn

#26. In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera.

Nia Long

#27. If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be contented, then, in everything, with being a philosopher; and if you with to seem so likewise to any one, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you.

Epictetus

#28. If you're trying to get a bit of attention, you can smash up your hotel room or spend all your time going to openings or doing the gossip column thing. I just decided to do gigs in French, German, Spanish, and in America.

Eddie Izzard

#29. Defeating depression is like playing the carnival game Whac-a-mole. You have to give it your all and be on target to beat that sucker down when it pops up again and again. If you pay attention, learn from your past efforts, and keep at it, you can win." -Mel. Edwards

Mel Edwards

#30. What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.

Richard Parks Bland

#31. You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

Milo Ventimiglia

#32. The world won't necessarily change but your understanding of it will, and therefore the world will change. Your attention will no longer be confined to the physical body and the physical world.

Frederick Lenz

#33. Lesson learned: If you're already resorting to writing shitty poetry (not the lovey-dovey kind) to get your guys attention within one month of meeting him, he is not the one.

Kate Madison

#34. Anything that does not belong where it is, the way it is, is an "open loop," which will be pulling on your attention if it's not appropriately managed. In

David Allen

#35. Nothing draws attention to thunder thighs more than shorts riding up your crotch.

K.A. Barson

#36. I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Charles R. Swindoll

#37. Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.

Judith Martin

#38. I would have done anything. Don't you know that?"
"No."
"Then you haven't been paying close attention. I love you. Even more than gold and dreams, I love you. It seems insane you haven't realized it. You were the one who first informed me of it."
"I broke your leg," she said

Shana Abe

#39. The often-used phrase "pay attention" is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

Daniel Kahneman

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

Jerry Seinfeld

#41. I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.

Richard Ford

#42. Pay attention to what your body is telling you about your own wants and needs. Find the rhythms in your cycles. There is wisdom in our biology. Above all, do what feels best. Making healthy choices feels good. This is not deprivation. It is nourishment on all levels. It is the opposite of neglect.

Julie Holland

#43. Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

Barry Sternlicht

#44. Give full attention to what you do. If you give a rapt attention to what you do, you can have what you could have done in 3 hours well completed within 2 hours or less. Concentration is the key word.

Israelmore Ayivor

#45. Naming your packaged products helps call attention to how the deal is special. Call the product bundle a collector's set, a gift basket, or holiday set, and give each one a name; something like The Artisan's Selection or Your Name's Gift Set.

James Dillehay

#46. Now, please, if I could direct your attention to the tip of this pen. Notice that it does not look like a normal pen. It is in fact a tooth of the Devil! And it will be injecting into your skin, not ink, but the blood of a demon!

William Pauley III

#47. The fact is, you will never reach your optimum health without paying attention to the spiritual dimensions of your life.

Rick Warren

#48. Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#49. One thing I've learned about vampires
they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that'll eat your eyeballs if you're not paying attention.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#50. This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#51. To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

Joshua Lederberg

#52. If you want to be positive, it is very easy and for that you should see where is your attention. Are you only seeing problems or are you seeing some fun in it?

Nirmala Srivastava

#53. Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!

Ngina Otiende

#54. Your kids need your love and attention, and being able to devote myself to them is very fulfilling. As I get older, spending time with my daughters makes things much easier. You learn to put your ego aside.

Bruce Willis

#55. During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.

Dale Ludwig

#56. Most breakups are awful. But with compassion, attention, introspection, and intention they can become transforming, bringing you closer to alignment with your true self while preparing you for the next great adventure.

Randy Siegel

#57. He brushed his thumb against her naked flesh and gently transferred his attention to her swollen lower lip.
"I did this to you. Does it hurt ?" he whispered.
"It only aches in your absence.

Sylvain Reynard

#58. Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you.

Deepak Chopra

#59. God, I love the waltz, the way the elegance of the one-count draws your attention away from the restlessness of the two-three.

Elizabeth Little

#60. If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.

Michael Josephson

#61. As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.

Frederick Lenz

#62. As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.

Wade Guyton

#63. There's an old folk saying that goes: whenever you delete a sentence from your NaNoWriMo novel, a NaNoWriMo angel loses its wings and plummets, screaming, to the ground. Where it will likely require medical attention.

Chris Baty

#64. Inattention to he world's ecological state is well advised. Because attention to it mitigates against your happiness, contentment your sense of well being.

Stephen Jenkinson

#65. Distinguish yourself [ ... ] in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He'll think he's won a prize when he gets it, and he'll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what's hard to get.

Karen Marie Moning

#66. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.

Eckhart Tolle

#67. Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

Nicole Ari Parker

#68. To focus means to bring your attention to the center, to concentrate on one thing intently in order to gain clarity.

Cheryl Richardson

#69. SEX! Now that I have your attention ... Please try to meditate at least 15 minutes, every day. You know it's good for you.

Marcelo Goianira

#70. If you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

Julian Barnes

#71. Time moves too slow or too fast. But I know a secret. You can control time. You can stop it or stretch it or loop it around. You can travel back and forth by living in the moment and paying attention. Time can be your bitch if you just let go of the "next" and the "before.

Amy Poehler

#72. Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.

Billy Sherwood

#73. May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

Anthony Liccione

#74. The sexier the other woman is, the more jealous your wife gets. And that's where slut shaming comes from. When a woman is too sexually attractive, when she's too good at attracting the attention of the opposite sex, other women will shame her for it, because they are afraid she will steal their men.

Oliver Markus

#75. Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

Napoleon Hill

#76. If you speak to people, you just attract their attention," he said, with a shaking voice. "You should just keep quiet and still and they overlook you. I've been doing it all my life. I know how to do it. Your way, you just - you make yourself visible.

Philip Pullman

#77. There is a kind of fallout that happens when you leave college. The classroom is a wonderful, if artificial, place: Your professor gets paid to pay attention to your ideas, and your classmates are paying to pay attention to your ideas. Never again in your life will you have such a captive audience.

Austin Kleon

#78. Give a man your attention
Lose his
Ignore a man
Gain his attention

K.C. Rhoads

#79. Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

Alexa Von Tobel

#80. You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

Daisy Fuentes

#81. It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

Tina Fey

#82. If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price.

Israelmore Ayivor

#83. Keep off your mind from the reward until the work is done; else you may be directed out of focus by the reward's appeals if it catches your attention!

Israelmore Ayivor

#84. With Twitter and Instagram and all of these vehicles where fans can directly interact with you and get your attention, there's a little bit of an entitlement. Like, "Why won't you follow me or write me back?" Well, if I write you back, then I have to write everyone back.

Ingrid Michaelson

#85. I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

Dorothea Dix

#86. It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

Quincy Jones

#87. When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive - put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.

Rodolfo Costa

#88. You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

Jerry Jeff Walker

#89. Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

Wes Fesler

#90. That was one helpful thing he said to her, the first thing that caught her attention. "Start your life." Because she had assumed that her life was over.

Josephine Humphreys

#91. Direct your attention to people; love, help and care for them

Sunday Adelaja

#92. I don't pay much attention to politics."
"You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.

Robert A. Heinlein

#93. In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.

Debbie Ford

#94. Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

J. Loren Norris

#95. What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Geneen Roth

#96. Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

Gail Kelly

#97. Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#98. I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

Schoolboy Q

#99. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

Chuck Palahniuk

#100. I slipped it into your papers to see if you would notice. The Zen master Ikkyu was once asked to write a distillation of the highest wisdom. He wrote only one word: Attention.

Jenny Offill