Quotes About Attention

The average adult touches his face sixteen times an hour

they took quite a lot of work to keep going. A typical stove in 1899, according to a study in Boston, burned some three hundred pounds of coal in a week, produced twenty-seven pounds of ash, and required three hours and eleven minutes of attention.

She always said, You boys aren't rich enough to afford not to pay attention.

everyone knows—that if you blow the opener, nobody remembers anything else.

Foot forward, weight forward, stop and listen. Foot forward, weight forward, stop and listen.

You boys aren't rich enough to afford not to pay attention.

celebrity. The number one topic on network evening newscasts for the decade was crime, even though crime rates nationally were plummeting during the period.

But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing.

New Rule: If you're one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than your husband, you talk too much. And I have some bad news for you: Your dog's not listening, either; he's waiting for food to fall out of your mouth.

New Rule: People on reality shows have to quit saying, You either love me or you hate me. There's actually a third option: not giving a shit about you.

New Rule: The sad mime at every protest has to give it a rest. One sign you're a major annoyance: when you haven't said anything and I still want to tell you to shut the fuck up.

New Rule: If one of your news organization's headlines is about who got kicked off Dancing with the Stars last night, you're no longer a news organization. Sort of like, if you were on Dancing with the Stars last night, you're no longer a star.

Look for this when you're not concentrating on how rattled Karl Malone was. 5.

People pay more attention when they think you're up to something.

You can present the material, but you can't make me care.

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Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it.

Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything.

So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are nor ours, and do not think of the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more, and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists.

The smallest detail may be the one that matters the most

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.