Quotes About Attention

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

The ball is the most important thing on the field.

The most important thing with children is to give them your time. Actually, that's all that matters.

When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.

The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.

I think the single most important thing for a job interview is leave the phone in your bag and do not look at it for 20 minutes.

Engagement is the most important thing about Instagram, and you can lose it if you miss a day.

I feel like, for an actor, eyes are the most important thing. So I'm a little obsessed with eye creams.

You give power to issues if you pay a lot of attention to them. The more attention you give them the more power they have. So the most powerful thing you can do is just get on and ignore it.

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

That's why every cricketer wants to play international cricket. First of all you're playing for your country, secondly there's a lot of media attention and thirdly, for India, there is so much support for us, especially in England. So you know what you are doing is important, and that motivates you, helps you get going.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

It's not like I want to be famous but it's a great motivation for me. If you have good attention, you feel more excited.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been punished in a manner which we may call passive. By this I mean that another person has not taken special, socially overt steps to harm the offender. This phenomenon has not received the attention it deserves.

Also, he always stopped before the music and piano store. It was a splendid store. And in the window was a small white dog upon his haunches, with head cocked gravely to one side, a small white dog that never moved, that never barked, that listened attentively at the flaring funnel of a horn to hear His Master's Voice -a horn forever silent, and a voice that never spoke.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulders...

Yo creo que la mente se puede profanar permanentemente con el hábito de escuchar cosas triviales, de modo que todos nuestros pensamientos se teñirán de trivialidad.

A more plausible explanation is that we are drawn to surprising news, and surprising news is more often bad than good.

did start paying attention to the unglamorous insights

But the change in tone also reflects a change in the zeitgeist between 2013 and 2016. In 2013, the relatively few people who were paying attention to big data often imagined themselves to be the carpenters; by 2016, many of us had realized that we were nails.