Quotes About Attention

It's a very bizarre thing to have people very concerned with your life, but I don't mind it because all that says to me is that they care about the show, and I can't ask for anything more than that.

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.

People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

Life has become a state of sensory overload.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

If you lead a public life, people are much more on to you than you think.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

What you put your attention on grows strong in your life.

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.

Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Music had shown that it could now articulate, reflect and project a sense of an established secular order – hence allowing the absolutist polemics of Lully's court operas – and yet also be the mouthpiece of a radical sense of often beleaguered individuality. By 1700 music had developed techniques capable of dividing and ordering time and of holding the attention of its listeners in ways that would have been impossible a century earlier.

In his imaginative response to Luther's text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words from start to finish: he shows that it can hold our attention and captivate us by metaphors that strike like lightning. As long as we are willing to let go and allow him to describe the world to us as he sees it, we are soon provided with a first point of entry.

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides.