Quotes About Attention

Yeah, what's new, a typical case of brass myopia, nothing personal, never a reason for an officer to pay attention to an enlisted joe unless he wants his ass licked or is experiencing some Zulu impulse to ram a spear through your chest.

people who served his customers. In conversations, he had the capacity to make each person feel important and as the total focus of his attention. He would ask about their personal lives and go out of his way to ensure that people were able to take care of family needs. He freely shared his love of his business

He would always share the latest ideas he'd been thinking about and pass books along for people to read. Every conversation with Don allowed you to bathe in his warmth, his attention, his love of people and the grocery business, and his interest in you as a human being. And his people responded to his attention by sharing his values and providing warm and friendly services to their customers.

I go out and give a speech and it's covered by CNN and nobody's watching, nobody cares. I tweet something and it's my megaphone to the world.

All presidencies are audience driven, but Trump's central audience was often himself. He kept giving himself reviews. Most were passionately positive. Much of his brain was in the press box.

His attention span is like a minus number," Fauci said privately.

During Trump's first six months in the White House, few understood how much media he consumed. It was scary. Trump didn't show up for work until 11:00 in the morning. Many times he watched six to eight hours of television in a day. Think what your brain would be like if you did that? Bannon asked. Bannon claimed he used to say to Trump, "Cut the fucking thing off.

All presidencies are audience driven, but Trump's central audience was often himself.

His attention span is like a minus number. His sole purpose is to get reelected.

For those of you who were critical that nobody paid enough attention to the generals at the beginning of the war, has it occurred to you that you don't want to make that mistake at the end of the war? Secretary Robert Gates

It was annoying how her voice, though never loud, pursued him. No matter how vociferous were other voices, all about, he seemed unable to prevent himself from constantly recognizing hers.

I've noticed more than once that it is precisely things we have barely noticed in the daytime, thoughts not brought to clarity, words spoken without feeling and left without attention, that return at night clothed in flesh and blood, and become the subjects of dreams, as if in compensation for our neglect of them in the daytime.

Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.

El verdadero Dios pone atención hasta cuando se cae un gorrión; pero el Dios creado por la vanidad humana no ve diferencia alguna entre un águila y un gorrión. ¡Oh, si los hombres por lo menos supieran!

A blush rose to my face. I fixed my eyes on the Pavement. The Other was so neat, so elegant in his suit and his shining shoes. I, on the other hand, was not neat. My clothes were ragged and faded, rotten with the Sea Water I fished in. I hated drawing his attention to this contrast between us, but nevertheless he had asked me and so I must answer. I said, 'What changed was that I used to have shoes. Now I have none.

He picks up a book and begins to read, but he is not attending to what he reads and he has got to page 22 before he discovers it is a novel – the sort of work which above all others he most despises – and he puts it down in disgust.

How the fuck else am I going to get any attention in this place? Lisa always called the hospital 'this place.

When the devil faults your reasoning, you should pay attention.

Obsidian eyes met hers, unreadable and assessing. Men didn't generally pay her much attention except to make an even number in a dance. And now she had a secret nearly-betrothed and a supposed teacher, one who looked like an angel and one a devil, and both with awful reputations. Best to remember that neither of them likely had anything good in mind for her.

you are in pain. Relax. Take a breath. Let's pay attention to what is happening. Then we'll figure out what to do. [p. 10]

There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.

The only way for a women to get my attention is to be you

Gideon knew exactly what I liked. Not because I'd told him, but because he paid attention to everything about me.

If you're in the same room with me, I don't see anyone else