Quotes About Attention

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

If there was an ethos at Squid Frames, it came from the elevation of craft. When a piece of wood was stained and finished particularly well, eyebrows were raised but little was said. The type of things that would score the most admiration were precisely the things that others would not recognize at all, because when the frames were well made, the eye would simply travel to the art.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

pay attention to the stories people tell about themselves, which will help you figure out what they stand for and their sense of identity.

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

While performing the great majority of the actions in their life, people are totally unaware. We tend to go through our daily activities mechanically. We talk without real purpose. We do things without even knowing that we do them. We are not really present to what we are doing. Even if we practise being aware, entire portions of our days can elapse before we retrieve our thread of awareness. In short, we are not living our life, we are sleeping it.

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

The more aware you are of yourself, the less outside influences can affect you. The less aware you are of yourself and the less attention you consciously pay to who you are, the more energy can affect you.

The first skill to develop for sensing energy is the ability to pay attention. Learn how to observe others by being silent. You know what it is like to sit back and watch. Observe any area about which you want more information without judgment or having any opinions or preconceived ideas about it. As you think intently about something, you will begin to receive guidance, ideas, and new thoughts about the issue.

After you stop and pay attention, the next step is to assume an attitude of confidence, and trust the information you are receiving.

It was only a few years ago that Madame Tussaud's announced that the company had found it necessary to use glue to 'fix' one of its most popular wax figures. 'Every time we passed by,' a curator explained, 'Bill Clinton's zipper was undone.

It's getting harder to hone your craft because of YouTube and the internet. You really need to get out to the clubs to hone your craft. A lot of people these days don't have the patience.

I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

I don't know how a woman can have such a poor view of herself as to show off poor stitching.

People can only pull you in one direction at a time.

The brain handles tasks sequentially but can switch attention between tasks so quickly that we're given the illusion that we can perform multiple tasks together. So if you want to get more done using less effort, aim to work on what's called your attentional ability: focus and concentrate on one sequence—one task—at a time and avoid distractions.

Things never quite turn out the way you imagine, do they," Miss Branson said, her voice low and almost amused in tone. "You have to pay attention to the moment in your hands, before it's gone.

Later, as life wore on, I would realize that most people think everyone hates them. The truth is worse; for most people, no one is thinking of them at all.