Quotes About Attention

I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

When I came into the NBA from Stanford, I had already decided what type of player I would be. I wanted to be the best player and teammate I could be, but not attract too much attention or make too much noise. I didn't want people to start asking questions about my personal life.

Actually, these days, it seemed like everything except getting half-naked with Adrian was the last thing on my mind.

Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole.

What did make me a little uneasy was that I often caught sight of him studying me in my periphery. I replayed what I'd said over and over in my mind, trying to figure out if there'd been anything to warrant such attention.

They were all buried quickly, quietly, without the attention, the traditions, they deserved, the way people always are in a time of plague

When people want to get appreciation and fear they are not, their behavior becomes more attention getting, forcing others to notice them.

If you're dealing with people who you perceive want to get it right as their top priority, and if in your conversations with them, you acknowledge this and you pay great attention to the details in your communications with them, you will increase cooperation and decrease misunderstanding.

These repetitions of name or gender create an irresistible force that so distracts the Tanks, Know-It-Alls, Grenades, or Whiners that they must stop talking to find out what it is you want! Once you have their attention, you can move forward by stating your intent, by clarifying something they were saying, or by using any of the other choices suggested in this chapter.

Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel confused by esoteric terminology or technique, remember that all these techniques or teachings are various ways to help you learn to pay attention.

If the abuser is a parent or caretaker, the abuse may be the most attention the child has had from that person. To the child, withholding attention can be a powerful form of coercion. Sexual molestation may be accompanied by physical expressions of affection that are sometimes the only affection the child receives.

Teddy White lamented that TV might spell the death of serious politics: to give a thoughtful response to serious questions, politician needed a good thirty seconds to ponder, but television allowed only five seconds of silence at best. DDB (ad men) found nothing to lament and the fact. They were convinced you could learn everything you needed to KNOW about a product, which in this case happens to be a human being, in half a minute – the speed not of thought but of emotion.

We may think that kids have a natural fascination with phones. Really, children have a fascination with whatever Mom and Dad find fascinating.

Every work of art is a request for love and attention.

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

One of Nick's better qualities is that his short attention span does not permit him to hold a grudge for more than five minutes.

I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.