Quotes About Attention

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Haste makes waste.

Went in at the one ear and out at the other.

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!

Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

Attention spans are so limited and ticket prices so high. We're anyway in a business of manipulating emotions. But each film needs to be positioned truthfully so that people don't feel cheated.

Truthfully, I think anything involving Tebow opens people's eyes.

Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

Braggarts are insecure and need attention, and bragging often has the opposite effect on most people when you're trying to gain their respect and increase your influence.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.

I tend to think about so many different things on a recording. I'll be trying to tune into what the drummer's doing, trying to keep everyone playing the groove and other things like making sure the piano's in a nice pocket.

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

My heart is drawn to the small, out-of-the-way things that I can't help but to give my focus and attention and care, 'cause they shut off what hijacks my brain and help to tune out what can cause me pain.