Quotes About Attention

It's impressive how God attends to the details.

I'll expect you and your . . . guy friend in the front row. Paying very close attention." "Wow," I say. "What will you ever do if I get a boyfriend?

Whether it's his training or his natural disposition, Deacon is charming. The kind of charming that makes you feel like you're the only person in the world who matters. Until you don't anymore.

Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.

Attention paid to the life, to the fact of life, to events and people, their enormous mattering--all the things that could not be more obvious when we're brought awake, but that really do get slurred away by distraction, sometimes for long periods, so that when the feeling does come back again, it seems like something that needs to be marked, sewn a la Blaise Pascal right into the lining of your coat--where you will always see it and remember

The primary material conditions for the making of beauty have not changed. But the frame of attention, and the context of mattering—these have.

In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.

When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

I'll always learn something new, usually the small things that people overlook, those small nuances that can make you great.

Things move really fast on the Internet and get forgotten, we always want something new, even though something may have just came out.

I don't necessarily pay extreme attention to what I wear on a daily basis, but I do love to wear something special for an important occasion or when I feel happy.

What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

I sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.

Sometimes there's a reason for the hype.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.

Most bodybuilders are somewhat extravert so they probably enjoy that whole thing of people looking at them all the time and being on stage. I was an introvert and not really interested in that, I was doing it for myself.