Quotes About Attention

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

Good photography is not about 'Zone Printing' or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see, or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

Attention to her words was at such a fever pitch that Theo was visited by a delegation of three diamond sellers who begged her aid. That very evening Lady Islay appeared at a ball wearing a necklace that featured no fewer than eight strands of diamonds, caught together by an extraordinary pear-shaped diamond pendant, and casually remarked that she thought a woman should rival the Milky Way at night: *We give babies milk, but ladies? Diamonds.*

Our fingers are frustratingly accurate in using the information we give them. If we imagine sloppily, we play sloppily; if we imagine clearly and precisely, that is how we play.

Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. … Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.

I don't know if you've ever been driven very slowly through a crowd of screaming fans, in full view of the world's media, on a gold-painted golf cart with a pair of enormous illuminated glasses and a bow tie on the front, but if you haven't, I can tell you that it's a pretty excruciating experience.

Take nothing for granted no matter how small it appears to you. For, just a mark can pass or fail you. Even a little mistake can tarnish your image for life. -Emeasoba George

Take nothing for granted no matter how small it is. For, just a mark can pass or fail you.Even a little mistake can tarnish your image for life.

Take true love seriously i.e. regard true love as important and worthy of your attention at all times/all-round.

True love should not be heedless. That is to say, true love ought not to be showing a reckless lack of care or attention. In other words, every true love should be caring and considerate at all times. ~Emeasoba George

True love shouldn't be heedless i.e. a true love ought not to be showing a reckless lack of care or attention. Note that.

What it takes to command the attention of the world is just to do the ordinary things extraordinarily. Yes! that's just the stuff. Anyway, do you long to command the attention of the world? If yes, then endeavour to do everything you ought to do extraordinarily.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

We cannot do without the notion of progress, yet it does not deserve our attention. It is like the 'meaning' of life. Life must have one. But is there any which does not turn out, upon examination, to be ludicrous?

There is life only in the inattention to life.

Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.

Little touches can make a big difference.

A nation of unimpressible philosophers would not care at all how the externals of life were managed. Who is the showman is not material unless you care about the show.

To state the matter shortly, royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.

I have known a man who did not know what color his sister's eyes were, though he had seen her every day for twenty years; or rather, he did not know because he had so seen her: so true is the philosophical maxim that we neglect the constant element in our thoughts, though it is probably the most important, and attend almost only to the varying elements—the differentiating elements (as men now speak)—though they are apt to be less potent.

When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.