Quotes About Attention

Watches are so named as a reminder — if you don't watch carefully what you do with your time, it will slip away from you.

When a person is talking, they aren't listening; Fools are made this way.

The best car safety device is a rear view mirror with a cop in it.

Creeping determinism means that we pay less attention than we should to the things that don't happen.

If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention.

Remember It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.

He listens well who takes notes.

God is never so preoccupied that He is not really listening to you.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

There's nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he's got shelf life like I never would have guessed.