Quotes About Attention

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Now they are questioning [Evans's] credibility, and the credibility of the detective who was investigating the case. When you're the D.A., you'd better be dotting your I's and crossing your T's. You don't want something like this coming."

Mr. Leszczynski attended class faithfully, arriving on time, and rarely succumbed to the undergraduate impulse to check his cell phone for messages or relentlessly zip and unzip his backpack in the final minutes of class.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

hija, hasta entonces inadvertidos

Johnny seguía mis palabras y mis gestos con una gran atención distraída, como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa.

A veces una es tan descuidada —dijo tímidamente Clara—. Cree que lleva todo, y siempre olvida algo.

A veces observaba sus manos con esa atención ingenua que prestan a las cosas más insignificantes las personas que esperan.

Así son los blancos. Pierden un gato y hacen sonar la alarma y hay titulares en primera plana, pero nosotros, los dominicanos, perdemos una hija y puede que ni cancelemos la cita en la peluquería.

he paid attention to telling us to do things that involve sacrifice... and that upset a lot of people

It's all well and good to save the human race. You could say I'm in favor. But you might want to pay a little more attention to what's right in front of you.

Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant.

He had a finger raised in the air for silence even before Rose saw him, but she had no doubt it was for her benefit.

A woman's touch?! ' he repeated, 'What is he thinking hermano ? Stukeley frowned. ''Captain doesn't know whether it's dinnertime or doomsday, mate. That's the state Lady Losckwood's got him in.We'be tried to talk some sense into him, but it just goes in one ear and out the other. IT's not as if he had much of an attention span to begin with, but since Lady Muck came on to the scene...

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

All the male faces in the room turned to me as if they were flowers and I the sun.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

Although she does not speak to me, She listens while I speak; Her eyes turn not to see my face, But nothing else they seek.

His informality contrasted sharply with the manner of General Groves, who "demanded attention, demanded respect." Oppie, on the other hand, got attention and respect naturally.

Palestinian guerrillas, in a bold and coordinated action, created this newest crisis Sunday, and in doing so they accomplished what they set out to do: they thrust back into the world's attention a problem diplomats have tended to shunt aside in hesitant steps towards Middle East peace.

I can't explain everything about why, but I found out some stuff recently that means I'm suddenly very interesting to a lot of people.", Celestra Caine, FADE by Kailin Gow

Could you maybe not stare at my brothers in open mouthed admiration?" Rachel whispers. "It will only make their egos bigger.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow