Quotes About Attention

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

A watched child never learns.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

Typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn.

Joe Blakley said, "I hate school!" "Just 'cause you didn't know the answer a while ago?" said Dan Rogers. Mrs. Long had caught Joe staring out the window instead of paying attention during math. "Know the answer ?" said Randall. "Joe didn't even know the question !

We are driven by repressed emotional energy. We live life in reaction to childhood emotional wounds. We keep trying to get the healthy attention and affection, the healthy love and nurturing, the being-enhancing validation and respect and affirmation, that we did not get as children.

The sweetest sound to anyone's ears is the sounds of his own name.

If you are tired or distracted, do not code.

God is in the details, said the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe.

That's being attentive to every variable name. You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child.

You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child.

Clean code always looks like it was written by someone who cares.

Mrs Frisby could not bear to watch; and yet, even more, she could not bear not to watch. She

Not only was he appealing to the urge prevalent in the party to concentrate attention and effort on the tasks of Soviet development, he was hinting that a fully socialist economy could be created in a comparatively short time.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

this is so important to the human animal, people will do almost anything to get attention, including committing a crime or attempting suicide. Look behind almost any action, and you will see this need as a primary motivation.