Quotes About Attention

In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the numerousness is astonishing. In April 1948, there were 15 readings in the United States, 12 by Robert Frost. So I claim. The figures are imaginary, but you get the point.

good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.

Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

Life is in the here and now. Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

I did not succeed in life by intelligence. I succeeded because I have a long attention span.

When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice

Anything you don't water, anything you don't take care of in your life, is going to die.

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't.

Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.