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Quotes About Attention

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
~ Sophocles
Whatever is sought for can be caught, you know, whatever is neglected slips away.
~ Sophocles
The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.
~ Jack Kornfield
People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star.
~ Jamie Redknapp
having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.
~ Jan Burke
We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Im not on Page Six, because I dont have anything salacious happening in my life unfortunately.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
~ Joan Jett
Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.
~ Joe Jonas
We've been duped into believing we don't have 25 minutes to have something change our life. We don't have 2. You know, we're tweeting. We're running around. We're 15 words or less.
~ John Buffalo Mailer
We keep searching for things all our life, yet seldom do we notice them!
~ Avijeet Das
If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don't do anything very strange!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If they don't appreciate your presence, they may never recognize your absence.
~ Najwa Zebian, Mind Platter
...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.
~ Charlie Brooker
Your mockers will only have your attention only if you give them your attention
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Life is about mindfulness. It's about being in the moment, being aware.
~ Katie Kacvinsky, Still Point
Take your life out of high gear and disengage the autopilot mode. Try living mindfully and avoid the pattern of living in a reactive manner.
~ Nanette Mathews
Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.
~ Richard Paul Evans, Promise Me
The next time you hear a person say, 'I don't have time' or 'I have no time, ' Take a moment to be with them. Without time, that somebody becomes a nobody.
~ J.R. Rim
time and attention is just like the check, you do not just issue them to anything or anybody at all
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah