Quotes About Attention

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Data that is loved tends to survive.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

Beware of finding what you're lookin

You never know who's watching.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

Be not heedless of the Lord for even the blink of an eye, Lest He direct His attention toward you, and find you unaware.

Big things are often just small things that are noticed.

One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.

People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.

Given enough time, the mobiles would train the eyes to look without seeing.

La esencia de la actitud displicente surge de un embotamiento de la capacidad de discriminar.

It is sterile and dangerous to believe that one dominates the entire world thanks to the Internet when one does not have enough culture to filter good information from bad information for consumption, all of them in competition for the unbearably fleeting and distracted attention of potential customers, striving to capture that attention beyond the blink of an eye.