Quotes About Attention

So careful of the type she seems,So careless of the single life.

Today such news would galvanize the Medical Corps, but in 1918 it attracted only a modicum of attention.

Ordinary sounds remain ordinary only so long as one is not listening to them; under the influence of intense listening they become unusual, portentous, and therefore extraordinary.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

To be noticed is to be loved.

Or perhaps it is just that George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of looking at something would be this good if she devoted time to everything she looked at.

See how it's deep in our animal nature, Daniel said. Not to see what's happening right in front of our eyes.

She is reading whatever it is very assiduously.

She was so adolescent. Everything about her asked for attention, the way she walked across a room or a shop or across the forecourt of a petrol station, leaning into the air in front of her as if about to lose her balance, mutely demanding that someone – Eve, who else? – put out the flat of her hand and let Astrid push her forehead or her shoulder into it.

Everybody turns to look at him. It is quite frightening.

And people wouldn't look up the details. They never look up the details.

Now she has headed back up toward the Chalet. Has her father signaled her in some way? I don't see any sign of him. He never seems to pay any attention to her nor tries to know where she is. Polly found his behavior negligent, but perhaps Nan is—in general—better off for it. Not every parent pays attention in a way that is to the child's benefit.

I hear the noise of your thinking; but I don't listen. Your thoughts wouldn't bear remembering.

Can you hear me, all of you?

into the lane he dropped not once looking up

I always wake like this being watched already forgetting who I am

Love, Ada thought out on the lake that first spring afternoon, is largely a matter of paying attention and good timing.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

I read quickly, flitting and sipping, skipping the boring bits and seizing on the oddities and inconsistencies which are often ignored by the scholars since they interfere with the measured and coherent approach to the matter at hand.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

I want to disrupt what's thought of as the default public radio voice. I want to challenge listeners as they ride the subway, jog on their treadmills, and drive on their commute. Even if the sounds and words we create might require greater concentration and attention, I believe our stories are worth the effort.

Like a short spoon in a tall glass, people's attention simply cannot reach the bottom of our profound longing to be valued. Only God can reach that place because he is the One who created that place.