Quotes About Attention

All those hours spent reading the Druid Histories. Just ancient legends and useless information from times dead and gone, the other Druids had scoffed. Nothing there will help you with the present. Studying the world around you is all that matters. There is nothing to be learned by studying what's over and done with. Except that those who fail to pay attention to the past are doomed to repeat it.

You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is.

Kahlan knew that people in fear for their own lives sometimes tried to shift attention away from themselves by offering another to the wolves. Worse, she also knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the perpetual cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Personal's not the same as important. People just think it is.

See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

He could think in italics . Such people need watching. Preferably from a safe distance.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum. When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow.

He'd forgotten the ancient wisdom: take care, when you are closely observing, that you are not closely observed.

A screaming vampire is always the centre of attention.

The universe required everything to be observed, lest it cease to exist.

I've never heard of you and I know this city like the back of my hand,' said Vimes. 'Right. And how often do you look at the back of your hand Mr Vimes?…

You have made quite a splash," said Vetinari, smiling, "as the fish said to the man with the lead weight tied to his feet.

In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.

Actors had a habit of filling all the space around them.

It's not staying in the same place that's the problem," said Nanny, "it's not letting your mind wander.

You humans are so good at ignoring things. You are almost blind and almost deaf. You look at a tree and see…just a tree, a stiff weed. You don't see its history, feel the pumping of the sap, hear every insect in the bark, sense the chemistry of the leaves, notice the hundred shades of green, the tiny movements to follow the sun, the subtle growth of wood...

Pigbog wished he'd paid more attention to the Book of Revelation. If he'd known he was going to be in it, he'd have read it more carefully.

He stood up, took his tray over to the PLEASE DISPOSE OF YOUR REFUSE WITH CARE receptacle, and dumped the whole thing. If you had told him that there were children starving in Africa he would have been flattered that you'd noticed.

It's a well-known fact. It's well known at the organic level, like a lot of other well-known facts which overrule the observations of the senses. This is because if people went around noticing everything that was going on all the time, no one would ever get anything done.*

When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow.

You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.

It doesn't take a lot to interest goats.