Quotes About Attention

Watch me like a vulture watches a fat mammal that is limping across the floor of a rocky canyon with its tongue out even though I'm your friend who you would never eat.

I love attention. I can't stand not having it. It just has to be the right kind.

The ways we miss our lives is life', Randall Jarrell quoted by A.P.

People are histrionic to get people thinking about them. We are excessive when something about ourselves needs to be recognized and we need other people to help us work out what it is.

Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

This is what happened. Pay attention.

Alas, a fiction can fly around the world before the truth has managed to pick the sleep from its eyes in the morning. Many

Why let the facts get in the way of a good story? Especially when it's got a sexy headline.

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public

The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.

21Finally, don't pay attention to everything that is said, so that you may not hear your slave reviling you; 22for well you remember* the many times that you yourself have reviled others.

MOTHER: Billy, we're leaving in five minutes. BILLY: (doesn't answer and continues to read the comics.) MOTHER: Would you tell me what I just said? BILLY: You said we're leaving in five minutes. MOTHER: Okay, now that I know you know, I won't mention it again.

by listening with full attention, by acknowledging his feelings with a word, by giving a name to his feelings, and by granting him his wishes in fantasy.

So there you have it—four possible ways to give first aid to a child in distress: by listening with full attention, by acknowledging his feelings with a word, by giving a name to his feelings, and by granting him his wishes in fantasy.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

The art of leadership.. consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

Ne množství, nýbrž jakost práce pomáhá ur?ovat hodnotu každého p?edm?tu. Žijeme v dob?, jež dává p?ednost kvantit? práce. Nebo? tato kvantita se dá lehce kontrolovat, je každému hned nápadná a nevyžaduje cvi?eného pohledu nebo n?jakých látkových znalostí.

Jde o to být oble?en tak, abychom byli co nejmén? nápadní. ?ervený frak je v tane?ním sále nápadný. Tedy je ?ervený frak v tane?ním sále nemoderní. Cylindr na led? je nápadný. Proto je na led? nemoderní. Všecko, co je nápadné, platí v dobré spole?nosti za hrubé a nep?ípustné.

In the subtle tyranny of that moment beat the pulse of Cesar's neighborhood—the bid for attention, the undercurrent of hostility for so many small needs ignored and unmet, the pleasure of holding power, camouflaged in teasing, the rush of love.

Trust is a seed that grows with attention and space. The facilitator can be a gardener, or the sun, the water.