Quotes About Attention

Which is to say, the same things that will likely do us in: the greed and blindness of the few, the hungers of the many, a fatal inattention to the fragile web of life on which our existence here depends.

People had got used to the planet dying. They didn't care anymore, it had been lingering on for too long. The Earth was like some aged and slightly disgusting relative that just got sicker and sicker and yet refused to die. Requiring more and more attention, growing bigger tumours, bursting nastier sores and soiling its sheets ever more often. An embarrassment and an inconvenience, a constant reminder of family guilt.

Sometimes I punch myself hard as I can Yelling "Nobody cares," hoping someone will tell me how wrong I am

Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

In a craven and hierarchical organization, the only thing more dangerous in revealing your own ignorance, is to draw attention to the stupidity of the boss.

Operation Claret proceeded with the sort of smoothness that suggested no one in authority was paying adequate attention.

In a craven and hierarchical organization, the only thing more dangerous than revealing your own ignorance is to draw attention to the stupidity of the boss.

You didn't go on MySpace to communicate, you went there to show yourself off. It was like one big narcissistic playground.

Algorithms are listening to us. At the very least we should try to listen better than we are being listened to.

to gauge their interest—just in case.

The bad employment report and our new liquidity measures competed for markets' attention on Friday.

The reality that small changes in the phrasing of the FOMC's statement could have important effects on policy expectations sometimes led us to spend what seemed like an inordinate amount of time on the choice of a single word.

so I focused as much as I could on the specific task at hand

They didn't resist, but they saw the idea as a low political priority.

The media and politicians rarely pay attention to statements by economists, but unfortunately they do if the statements are sufficiently controversial (in the case of the media) or support preconceived views (in the case of politicians).

Baby boomers and their music rebelled against parents because they were parents—nurturing, attentive, and overly present (as those teenagers often saw it) authority figures. Today's teenagers and their music rebel against parents because they are not parents—not nurturing, not attentive, and often not even there.

That's death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your hearts, alert your senses, and pay attention. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice all the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you. Qualcuno ti ama. Somebody loves you.

That's the death and life, you see. We all shine on. You just have to release your heart, alert you senses, and pay attention

Notice the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you

If you were damned certain you weren't looking for something, there was a very good chance you wouldn't see it.

You must always be doing things and obviously succeeding. The hard part is to keep people always at the window because of the spectacle you put on for them. And you must do this for years.

for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail.

I cannot pay attention unless I am attracted," said Egremont.