Quotes About Attention

When great musicians practice, they go slowly enough that errors are avoided. When an error does crop up, expert practicers fix those errors immediately. That's the strategy: fixing a mistake immediately. Anybody can do it, and anybody who adopts that strategy will get better faster than those who don't.

And terror's first cousin: media coverage.

No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.

Give every data point the attention and scrutiny it deserves, and keep an open mind for alternative explanations that may explain your observations as well as (or better than) your pet theories.

Your phone is not your problem. The problem is when we let our phone captivate us so significantly with the unimportant that we ignore the important all around us.

The secret, of course, to any list is to keep it in a place where you're bound to see it.

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

Activists demanded that economists pay more attention to inequality, which economic development had often seemed to exacerbate.

Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It chuckled. "Why do you think I'm chatting with you?

To be fair, since meeting her that morning she'd treated me with careful attention and respect; but since the same could also be said of a gloved scientist holding a blob of plague bacillus on a glass slide, I didn't read too much into it.

Remember—we shouldn't be able to see them," I said. "Keep looking straight ahead.

Quit worrying. I even brushed my teeth as well." "My God, you have made an effort.

Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.

She watches him, as a cat would watch a mouse.

A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

And it's absurd, how people hang on every word

We Burmese,' he began, 'are experts at looking for what's not there. It's something you should learn to do too. You must look for what's missing and learn how to find the truth in these absences.

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

I was walking down the street. Something caught my eye, and dragged it fifteen feet.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.