Quotes About Attention

There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.

We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us.

But then, strangely, suddenly, there it was: the power to attract erotic attention, a particular kind of admiration. A kind that made you feel feminine—ladylike, even.

Again, those also who are ignorant of legal regulations which they are bound to know, and which are not hard to know, they chastise; and similarly in all other cases where neglect is thought to be the cause of the ignorance, under the notion that it was in their power to prevent their ignorance, because they might have paid attention.

Tragedy, then, is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself, and of some amplitude; in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the several parts of the play; presented in the form of action, not narration; by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

Help me find Vuitton." The priest scolded her with a glance. "You've lost him again?" "Of course not," said Prue. "He's around here somewhere. Vuiiiton! Here, boy!Vuiiiiiton! …

Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious.

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible.

Even the few serious crimes that did occur received no particular attention in the news. For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with at leisure—and when they had to be treated as real emergencies. If he paid equal attention to all the ship's cries for help, he would never get anything done. He

As a matter of interest," he said

The mind has many watchdogs; sometimes they bark unnecessarily, but a wise man never ignores their warning.

Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that's available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating.

The worst thing is, they get bored. The disadvantage of overeducation

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

I must thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'for calling my attention to a case which certainly presents some features of interest. I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.

The main thing with people of that sort is never to let them think that their information can be of the slightest importance to you. If you do, they will instantly shut up like an oyster. If you listen to them under protest, as it were, you are very likely to get what you want.