Quotes About Attention

Entrepreneurs are usually really creative people, which is awesome when you have to write an entire album or thirty-five marketing e-mails, but can be a menace when you're starting a business. I guarantee you, the moment you get a great idea for a business and start working on it, you'll get awesome ideas for several others. If you split your attention and try to pursue more than one at once, you're screwed.

But by confronting whatever lies beneath—be it our guilt for wanting more money or our mismanaged investments or our less-than-impressive plans for getting rich—once we give it attention and untangle it, we empower ourselves to end the torture. Our attempt to avoid pain backfires on us all the time.

Where you choose to place your attention dictates the reality you get to participate in. Choose to focus on the good instead of spending your one and only life stewing on the suckery.

What you choose to focus on becomes your reality. And

There's probably a ton of yellow, but you didn't see it because you were looking for red.

What you focus on you create more of

Drama dies without an audience

Shew Lin talks loudly, moves with hurricane-like energy. Everything she does is meant to be noticed and the center of attention.

People are always gonna talk, and to tell you the truth I love it. I love the attention. I do what I do because it puts a smile on my face, and I'm the only one in the world that matters.

Tonight I had wrought magic powerful enough to have drawn the attention of a goddess. In that moment, though, I was certain of one thing: Of all the magic I possessed, none of it could begin to compare to the magic he and I created together.

Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in our environment.

He taught me the difference between casual "birdwatching" and the more intense, focused "birding," and urged me to go beyond identifying birds to noting their actions and behavior.

As Fellows stood still, unwilling to reach for this little bundle he might drop, Alec's face scrunched into a fierce scowl. Then he opened his mouth, and roared. Fellows had heard plenty of children cry in hunger, in fear, or in want of simple attention. Alec's bellowing possessed the strength of his Highland ancestors, calling out for blood.

Call a girl pretty once, and all she wants, forevermore, is to hear it again.

In the end, at least, I got what I wanted - a stage to stand on, an audience to applaud. For all of Paris watches me now. They talk of nothing else. In the Assembly, in the coffeehouses, in the laundries and factories and market stalls, they talk of the fireworks. The broadsheets are full of my doings, every one. No player has ever managed that, not even the great Talma himself. But there is only one in the audience I care about now. Only one.

No matter how careful you are"..."there's always going to be a mess, and you're going to have to clean it up afterward.

I brushed some imaginary lint from my shirt, or touched my cleavage to catch his eye, depending on your perspective.

John pointed at me to get my attention. He circled his finger in the air to tell me to wrap it up, then pointed to his cop car. I made a series of baseball catcher's signs.

I crossed my arms, stilled by a revelation that had been mounting in me ever since our arrival in this bower of poured concrete: that as the "subject," I was both the center of attention and completely extraneous. The feeling brought with it an eerie, stultifying familiarity; I was still the model, after all. I was modeling my life.

Being observed felt like an action, the only one worth taking.

I turned my attention back to Kaitlin, who now appeared to be very conscientiously stalking my shoelace.

Actively hating your newfound popularity with a fiery passion can really take a lot out off you

Ms. Kendrick, are you listening to me?" Headmaster Raleigh asked. Not in the least. "Yes, sir." The sir seemed to appease him somewhat.

You could be happy with three. Three is a good number. But in this life, in this world, three is not enough. You can't stop. You won't. If you don't have their attention yet, you will soon.