Quotes About Attention

To discover what you really believe, pay attention to the way you act—and to what you do when things don't go the way you think they should. Pay attention to what you value. Pay attention to how and on what you spend your time. Your money. And pay attention to the way you eat. You will quickly discover if you

We are always whirling in the trance of deficiency in which we equate being alone with loneliness, restraint with deprivation, being silent with being empty. I get seduced by the promise of adding yet another ornament to the tree of myself and forget to pay attention to the heavenly invisibles.

What we are looking for is who is looking

let me remember to pay attention to the ordinary, not just to the extraordinary.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' This is Tarkovsky's aesthetic in a nutshell.

Dorothea Lange said that 'the camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

All feeling of shame rests upon isolation of the individual; it arises whenever stress is laid upon the ego , whenever the attention of a circle is drawn to such an individual — in reality or only in his imagination —which at the same time is felt to be in some way incongruous. For that reason retiring and weak natures particularly incline to feelings of shame.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

There's no harm in reviewing the past from time to time; knowing where you've been is part of knowing where you are, and all that happy horse shit. But the American media have an absolute fixation on this. They rob us of the present by insisting on the past. If they were able, I'm sure they would pay equal attention to the future. Trouble is, they don't have any film on it.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)

as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees

But on safe opportunities, she had an indirect mode of making her negative wisdom tell upon Dorothea, and calling her down from her rhapsodic mood by reminding her that people were staring, not listening.

It is vital that progressives understand why just citing the facts doesn't work, and why attention to public discourse must be constant, not just focused on elections.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. I mean, I played with kids in the street all the time, too - I definitely wasn't denied a childhood. But I do wonder whether, in a sense, acting was my way of getting noticed.

I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior.

It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.

The commissioning of the Kaleshwaram project, a man-made wonder, in record time has invited global attention.

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.