Quotes About Attention

The things that you think about the most will irrationally rise in importance in your mind.

An intentional "error" in the details of your message will attract criticism. The attention will make your message rise in importance—at least in people's minds—simply because everyone is talking about it.

But if your story is about the inner workings of competitive quilting, you'd better make it short and extra witty. People drift off when you stop talking about stuff that isn't, well, them. The

5 And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago...

Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!

I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say. I'd rather have something to say.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention

Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in the distant past and strive with might and main to recall and restore what is irrevocably lost.

Sevgili dostum, dikkat nedir ki? Tehlike sonu gelmez bir konudur, ö?renmekle bitmez!

Wer das erste Knopfloch verfehlt, kommt mit dem Zuknöpfen nicht zu Rande.

What do you mean,who? You just saw me talking to her!" "If anyone was with you when I arrived, I'm afraid I didn't notice. My eyes were only on you.

Anthony grinned at her, knowing that would probably infuriate her all the more. "My eyes have been a-wandering, as you put it, for the last nineteen years. Give them a rest, Roslynn. They settled on you and don't want to move on.

Id you're finished picking out my flaws,maybe you'd like to tell me what you want now.I have other customers--" "You." "What was that?" "I Want You.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.

The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start clamouring for attention when you least expect it, like a mad baby.

I have come to the feeling about television the way I do about hamburgers: I eat a lot of hamburgers and I don't remember a single one of them.

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'm addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You've read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discreditable motive? How is it you don't go to a movie, watch TV, stare at a wall, play tennis with a friend, make amorous advances to the person who comes to your mind when I speak of amorous advances? Can nothing surfeit, saturate you, turn you off? Where's your shame?

It may be, for example, that Sheila is one figure among twenty; but for our own reasons she is the only one we have eyes for.)

All publicity works upon anxiety.

It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.