Quotes About Attention

We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them.

Why can't you live in the present? You live everywhere but in the present.

he would not attend at all to anything which did not interest him)

She would give ease to his too long wandering heart, and then he could live more fully in the world of other people, more able, because more happy, to give them his full attention.

I think one should pay so much attention to technique, don't you? Like learning to draw before you paint.

The trouble with people like him is that they think that they can brush off people like me. Like I was nothing. They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition.

They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition.

Dors muttered to him, "Stop studying humanity. Be aware of your surroundings." "I'll try.

He seemed so to Hari Seldon, certainly. Seldon stopped his morning constitutional to watch him.

There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It's the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that's why they get noticed.

Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan más.

C'è molta gente buona, Irina, ma è discreta. I cattivi, invece, fanno molto rumore, per questo si notano di più.

The few exiles who returned to the hospital were received with much less fanfare, because it was unwise to attract attention. This was the tacit slogan throughout the country: don't provoke the military, so as to pretend the recent past was buried and in the process of being forgotten.

Nadie se fija en nadie, Richard. Y nosotros parecemos una pareja madura de vacaciones. —¿En la nieve? ¿En dos vehículos? ¿Con una niña llorona y un perro vestido de Sherlock Holmes? Y tú con esos pelos colorinches. Por supuesto que llamamos la atención, mujer.

Alma Belasco had caught her attention. She stood

Love doesn't grow like a wild plant, it needs a lot of care.

la gente no lee lo que no le interesa, y si le interesa es que ya tiene madurez para hacerlo.

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the fuzz on the ball' to really get into the Zen of it. You pull all that together, and then you just might hold up the Wimbledon Plate... It's not about winning first place but bringing every element of effort to whatever you do.

I was the girl who was correcting people on the spelling of Led Zeppelin.

You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.

Life in zero gravity is hard to simulate. We practice on the ground what we call 'the day in the life' simulations, but it's just practicing some of the tests. It can't prepare you for the fact that all of your tools float if you don't pay attention to where they are! If you don't Velcro things down, they're gonna float away.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.

Actually, zero labels were jumping toward me, and I couldn't get to anybody. Nobody was paying any attention. And I was like, 'OK, I'm going to put my nose to the ground and really work on writing and creating some good songs that people could gravitate to.'