Quotes About Attention

My mother used to say, "You can eat off my floor." You can eat off my floor, too. There are thousands of things there.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Las inteligencias poco capaces se interesan en lo extraordinario; las inteligencias poderosas en las cosas ordinarias.

No life should pass unnoticed.

so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

The truth is, of course, that there is a danger of being unaware of those persons and things nearest and most accustomed to us. It is not necessarily true that familiarity breeds contempt, but it does tend to make the familiar something that is taken for granted.

The whole future---I thought---will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning.

The attentions of Pasquale Peluso consoled me greatly, I liked that he made me laugh. Maybe I'm not so ugly, I thought, maybe I can't see myself.

Lo observé con atención. Él era exactamente así. No quedaba nada que pudiese interesarme de él. No era siquiera un fragmento del pasado, era solo una mancha, como la huella que una mano dejó años atrás en una pared.

The whole future–I thought–will be that way, life lives together with the damp odor of the land of the dead, attention with inattention, passionate leaps of the heart along with abrupt losses of meaning. But it won't be worse that the past.

For children parents are always a burden. But parents who draw too much attention to themselves are intolerable.

Who says I'm vain?" "The comparison: your friend isn't. But I'm sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you're vain you pay attention to yourself and your affairs.

Il futuro - pensai - sarà tutto così, la vita viva insieme all'odore umido della terra dei morti, l'attenzione insieme alla disattenzione, i balzi entusiastici del cuore insieme ai bruschi cali di significato. Ma non sarà peggio del passato.

Majka svaki put ustraje u tomu da se prilikom tzv. -»davanja koncerata«, koji su slatka nagrada za uporno vježbanje, širom otvore prozori na ku?i kako bi u ?arobnim melodijama mogli uživati svi susjedi. Majka i baka tada stoje pored prozora, naoružane dalekozorom, i s visine svoga brijega promatraju jesu li susjeda i cijela njena obitelj sjeli pored stare ma?ke na klup?icu ispred ku?e poslušno slušaju?i »koncert«.

And right away here comes a whole concrete wall of snow, this popular, but inconspicuous (once arrived, it simply lies around everywhere) piece of sports equipment that falls down to earth around the clock and no one, apart from the athletes, really pays attention, unless they haven't got winter tires fitted yet. And this snow is suddenly like stone, like concrete, which has a stomach ache and thus must empty itself over everything.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Hungary felt increasingly like reading War and Peace: new characters came up every five minutes, with their unusual names and distinctive locutions, and you had to pay attention to them for a time, even though you might never see them again for the whole rest of the book.

Your hair looks different," Grisha told Varvara. "Oh? I haven't had it cut." He squinted at her. "I think it grew

As usual, the girls were more interesting to look at.

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

I spat out the appropriate response of bitter laughter. Heads turned to me again. I guess I wasn't looking too sane to the crumblies. [referring to the old people in the room]

The existence of such objects also supports the suggestion made in the Introduction that human beings are directed toward the impersonal as well as toward the personal. These very early manifestations of investing impersonal objects with significance are evidence that man was not born for love alone. The meaning attaching to such objects may later become invested in objects of scientific enquiry, or in any of the manifold aspects of the external world which engage adult attention.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.