Quotes About Attention

What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

I don't have time to worry about them when they are not.

Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.

I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.

To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

Things worth telling - take time

Now we realize that time is our most valuable resource, and every minute we spend in one of these meetings just sitting there is time wasted.

We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.

I can't look at everything hard enough!

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else.

Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.

When you draw a line in the sand, be careful it is not low tide.

If we take care of the inches we will not have to worry about the miles.

Life is denied by lack of attention whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.

Having a manicure pulls a look together. Hands are the first thing people see after your face.

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!