Quotes About Attention

What matters is to know how to see, ... To know how to see when seeing

When I reached the barrack I paid no attention to anything or anybody but went straight to a bed and lay on it and fell into a full and simple sleep. Compared with this sleep, death is a restive thing, peace is a clamour and darkness a burst of light.

The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.

I don't have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a sense of loss, I do, and I go on to something else.

With grown people, a road led either to heaven or hell, but with children there were always stops along the way where their attention could be turned with a trifle.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in itself, he is going to take great pains to control every excess, everything that does not contribute to this central meaning and design. He cannot indulge in sentimentality, in propagandizing, or in pornography and create a work of art, for all these things are excesses. They call attention to themselves and distract from the work as a whole.

Parker had an extra sense that told him when there was a woman nearby watching him.

He felt he knew now what time would be like without seasons and what heat would be like without light and what man would be like without salvation. He didn't care if he never made the train and if it had not been for what suddenly caught his attention, like a cry out of the gathering dusk, he might have forgotten there was a station to go to.

The entire thrust of this season at the end of the church year is designed to bring us face-to-face with reality—reality about sin and death, reality about the human race, reality about God. Something ultimate has entered our world, something or Someone that calls us to attention, calls us out of our daily preoccupations and our routine points of view. That is what this season with its special biblical readings is designed to reveal

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

I don't care about being famous.

Only traumatised people want to be famous.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

Before I was even famous, I was famous on Facebook.

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.

Snooki is famous for absolutely nothing.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

I know who famous people are, so I listen to them.