Quotes About Attention

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Deprive a child of parental approval, and they'll spend their lives trying to get it. And the sad, undeniable fact is that I spent most of my formative years just trying to get my parents' attention, let alone their approval. The more they withheld it, the greater my attempts to attain it.

your eyes will be drawn to one small odd thing among all the thousands of others—the thing that calls to you, and suddenly, out of everything else your eyes are taking in and disregarding, they'll focus on this one spot where something doesn't make sense, or maybe it spells danger, or it just reminds you of a time and place different from this one. And you can't look away.

We take sight for granted and forget to look

When it wants our attention, memory tends to resort to distortion and deceit.

y se qudó un instante mirando esos ojos grices que no la miraban, o bien que miraban todo con la misma desatención alarmada

La memoria tiene la capacidad maravillosa de acordarse del olvido, de su existencia y su acecho, y así nos permite mantenernos alerta cuando no queremos olvidar y olvidar cuando lo preferimos

Tres parejas que fingen prestarse atención mientras miran su Instagram, dos hipsters haciendo como que escriben una novela en sus MacBooks, un asesino psicópata. Al último es más fácil reconocerle, es el único que, en lugar de un dispositivo electrónico, tiene un libro de papel en la mano.

Etchenike fue observado con desdén y detenimiento, es decir con atención desatenta o sea como un animal raro pero repulsivo.

on the internet] "wearing sweatpants and a tee shirt, I found it easy and intensely gratifying to relish the compliments and heterosexual advances of men I surely would have avoided had I encountered them in person.

It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

Miss Rose in this demonstrating the peculiar talent of those who proclaim their absence of self-esteem for getting a lot of attention by pretending they never get any

To earn an ally, be an ally. Many, if not most, spirits possess sacred animals, plants, or places. Working on their behalf is an act of veneration and should eventually attract favor and attention.

Are you making noise with your book marketing or are you creating a symphony?

She sometimes wishes she'd paid attention to her aunt's remedies for dispelling a careless curse. Is it when you throw salt over your shoulder? Is it when you spit on the floor? Maybe this is the time you spit on your husband; maybe a divorce is what is called for…

First. I give a damn. About everything you do

to practice is to pay attention to your whole life: your thoughts, your bodily sensations, and your speech and other actions.

The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event.

People who talk less frequently notice more.

Always, emotional freedom involves choosing where you put your attention.

My personal belief is that we have to get kids' attention, and fast. A period on a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.