Quotes About Attention

I always watch for the longest day in the year and then I miss it.

He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.

The instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime

He had fixed his aunt with the bright-yellow eye, giving her that acute and exaggerated attention that young males are accustomed to render to all females who are of no further value.

There was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking—and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us?

Mientras hablaba, el oficial la miraba de la forma en que toda chica sueña que alguna vez la miren.

His eyes were of a bright, hard blue. His nose was somewhat pointed and there was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking - and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us? - glances fall upon us, curious or disinterested, nothing more.

I'm too bright for most men, and yet I have to descend to their level and let them patronize my intellect in order to get their attention.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later. For instance, the beautiful word, the colored and glittering word, and the beautiful simile belong in prose now. To get attention poetry has got to strain for the unusual word, the harsh, earthy word that's never been beautiful before.

there was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking — and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us? — glances fall upon us, curious or disinterested, nothing more.

and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone, and yet to avoid all eyes. I

When a girl comes out, she needs all the attention.

My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.

Good programming, like good books, asks a little more of the viewer. But no executive today will risk having the viewer bored for even a minute.

Confucian axiom "If one's mind is elsewhere, one will look but not see, listen but not hear

Absolutely,' she said. 'The more you pay attention to the body, the less attention you've got left to pay the soul. I really do understand that.

wasn't her love and attention enough

Para realizar um sonho é preciso esquecê-lo, distrair dele a atenção. Por isso realizar é não realizar.

O que parece haver de desprezo entre homem e homem, de indiferente que permite que se mate gente sem que se sinta que se mata, como entre os assassinos, ou sem que se pense que se está matando, como entre os soldados, é que ninguém presta a devida atenção ao facto, parece que abstruso, de que os outros são almas também.

Il Destino è come una persona che smette di importunarci quando si accorge che non diamo importanza a ciò che fa.

There is no reason for any of our desires to exist. Our attention is an absurdity allowed by our winged inertia.