Quotes About Attention

Perhaps the three principles closest to my heart--and the most radical--are learning to accept your ignorance, paying more attention to the question than to the answer, and never being afraid to go in an opposite direction to find a solution.

Even when I look away I am still looking.

and everyone's watching, everyone's curious, everyone's holding their breath.

Here you are on the TV, saying Watch me, just watch me.

He beat out a drumroll on the table edge with the first two fingers of each hand.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.

The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as which we close our eyes.

I have often lamented that we cannot shut our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.

An author, when he first appears in the world, is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his Performances.

Ned, what's wrong with your face? I don't think you've been drying thoroughly between the folds and interstices.

Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a brief glance to give an important cue.

Scents, dreams, thoughts — even words — they all try to stick around, but we ignore them, so they leave.

If we just paid closer attention to the details of our daily lives, nothing that happens to us would surprise us.

She had a way of brushing her hair back from her face with one hand, slowly, using the tips of her fingers, closing her eyes briefly, and he was entranced by that. The sheer pleasure she took in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony. Their words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. How well he could have applied this passage to the last words of Jesus on the cross.

I also never would have imagined I'd quote back a church lesson, but when the rest of the crowd stood up to take communion, I found myself saying to Dimitri: "Don't you think that if God can supposedly forgive you, it's kind of egotistical for you not to forgive yourself?" "How long have you been waiting to use that line on me?" he asked. "Actually, it just came to me. Pretty good, huh? I bet you thought I wasn't paying attention." "You weren't. You never do. You were watching me.

?We need someone to get the room?s attention,? I said. ?Someone not afraid to make a spectacle—I mean, besides me, of course.?

How was it that Adrian Ivashkov, who never seemed to take anything seriously was the only one among these "responsible" people who paid attention to such small details? How was he the only one to really understand the magnitude of what I was feeling?

Everything I?d been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and see if I had a follower, but that would have definitely attracted attention.

Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book in any language.