Quotes About Attention

We watch And we are always there.

I could feel the attention as if it were an embrace.

This is a specific person, do you understand? Not just some patient . I want to make sure you realize that.

When you come [to a baseball game] in person, you direct your own focus, you know? The TV or the radio men, they might focus on the pitcher when you want to see what first base is doing; and you don't have any choice but to accept it.

I think if you knew them well enough, if you'd listened to them closely enough while they were still alive, you might be able to imagine what they would tell you even now. So the smart thing to do is, pay attention while they're living.

While the train racketed along, he sorted his currency into envelopes that he'd brought from home—each envelope clearly marked with a different denomination. (No fumbling with unfamiliar coins, no peering at misleading imprints, if you separate and classify foreign money ahead of time.)

Plenty of other books say how to see as much of the city as possible," his boss had told him. "You should say how to see as little.")

Sometimes it seemed to her that with all her fretting over Denny, she had let her other children slip through her fingers unnoticed. Not that she had neglected them, but she certainly hadn't screwed up her eyes and focused on them the way she had focused on Denny. And yet it was Denny who complained of feeling slighted!

I will never forgive you for consuming every last little drop of our parents' attention and leaving nothing for the rest of us.

Willa made sure to keep a rapt expression on her face so the stewardess wouldn't feel ignored.

In fact Alice was surprised to hear that her father had even noticed whether David went into the water or not, because he and Bentley liked to stand waist-deep with their arms folded across their chests and talk about sewage or something.

Not only had she paid him attention, but she had secretly taken more pleasure in him than in any of the others.

Walking a small child was like herding water, Michael used to think when his own children were small. Heaven only knew what they'd take into their heads to do next - dart in front of a speeding car or throw a tantrum in mid-traffic or stop to pick a soaked cigar butt out of the gutter.

Once you give your attention to the title Don't Think of an Elephant, no matter how hard you try you cannot not think of an elephant. It is the same way with stories.

Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. Today, class, we are having a special science lesson. Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.

Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.

The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.

But there is another kind of seeing that involves a letting go. When I see this way I sway transfixed and emptied. The difference between the two ways of seeing is the difference between walking with and without a camera. When I walk with a camera I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you.

I don't want to be ugly all my life. 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.

You're still yourself on the inside, Shay. But when you're pretty, people pay more attention." "Not everyone thinks that way.

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

You're still yourself on the inside, Shay. But when you're pretty, people pay more attention." "Not everyone thinks that way." "Are you sure about that? That you can beat evolution by being smart or interesting?

We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.