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Quotes About Attention

The vanity of the Sex, said he, will not suffer any thing of this sort to escape our Harriet. Women, continued he, make themselves so cheap at the public places, in and about town, that new faces are more enquired after than even fine faces constantly seen. Harriet has an honest artless bloom in her cheeks; she may attract notice as a novice:
~ Samuel Richardson
That which you focus on will expand in your life. And if you're constantly noticing what you lack, then the deficiencies in your life will become overwhelming.
~ Sandra Anne Taylor
What people aren't looking for, they rarely see.
~ Sandra Brown
important goal today may turn to ashes tomorrow simply because we turn our attention to something else. We
~ Sandra Felton
complaining often means drawing attention to yourself at the very time you draw attention to structures.
~ Sara Ahmed
after all, it is this noticing that makes things real.
~ Sara Ahmed
get uptake." Some complaints get uptake, which is to say, they come off, they survive a collision.
~ Sara Ahmed
Mainstreaming did not work. This practitioner gave no more detail than necessary to convey why it did not work: "We haven't been able to give as much attention as we would have liked to it.
~ Sara Ahmed
she had conducted meticulous daily inspections since the time she could crawl.
~ Sara Foster
He whispers in her ear, and she basks in his attention, trumpeting happily at the sight of him. Doesn't she remember?
~ Sara Gruen
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
~ Sara Gruen
Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.
~ Sara Shepard
It happened right then; he looked at me and it was the thing I'd been waiting for but didn't know it. I don't mean anything corny like I fell in love or even into a crush or anything like that. It was more a feeling like when I'd get picked first for volleyball or find one of those stupid school candygrams in my locker. It was knowing someone else thought about me for more than one second, maybe even about me when I wasn't there.
~ Sara Zarr
No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
~ Sarah Dessen
The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.
~ Sarah Dessen
As I shut the door and started to walk away, I heard him say, Hey. Sydney. Yeah? You had on a shirt with mushrooms on it, and your hair was pulled back. Silver earrings. Pepperoni slice. No lollipop. I just looked at him, confused. Layla was walking toward us now. The first time you came into Seaside, he said. You weren't invisible, not to me. Just so you know.
~ Sarah Dessen
That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.
~ Sarah Dessen
If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future.It's all linked together.
~ Sarah Dessen
As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.
~ Sarah Dessen
That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.
~ Sarah Dessen
I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents' attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break.
~ Sarah Dessen
We were all staring as we passes him, slowly, like a tourist at a wildlife park watching elephants from the safety of their wagon.
~ Sarah Dessen
That's my point. That's why we can't forget. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
~ Sarah Dessen
But I'm kind of used to being invisible," I continued. "So any kind of attention makes me nervous.
~ Sarah Dessen