Quotes About Attention

If you don't want me to be in love with you, you're going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I'm having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

Details convince; they persuade us that the writer has looked closely at the world, and they bring us close to the world the writer is creating.

But don't wait for something to happen before you begin to write; pay attention to the world around you, right now.

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.

Each letter has a shape, she told them, one shape in the world and no other, and it is your responsibility to make it perfect.

I only snatched him to get your attention," I said. "Now that I've got it, this is what I want." "Damn my dame!" Al shouted, hands raised to the ceiling. "I knew it! Not another list!

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

The image of the two of them—smiling and at ease with each other—would be burned in Sid's memory forever. What all had gone on between them while he'd collected Asa's lumber? Sadie obviously had time for the sheriff, but not for him. Couldn't she see she was breaking his heart? But he had a plan to capture her attention tonight. By the end of the day, she'd be looking at him with that moony expression she'd aimed at the sheriff.

Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.

people with a diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder tend to have a larger amygdala, which is linked to paying greater attention to threatening or fearful stimuli.

A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollar They're worth so much more after I'm a goner And maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin' Funny when you're dead how people start listenin

Everyone stops for a giant on a unicycle.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.

Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen

Besides, he would know that I did it on purpose. (Serenity) Honey, I assure you, that man won't think a thing. His mind will be on other matters. You could chop off his head and he wouldn't notice. (Kristen)

Awarness of potential distractions is helpful untill it limits your ability to focus on the task at hand

When a crow tries to peck your eye when your still alive, checkout your surrounding

What a way to go," he said. "Everyone putting your life under the microscope. What if we paid that kind of attention to people while they were alive?

Back in 1971, Herbert Simon, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978, warned that "a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." This is much worse today, in particular for decision-makers who tend to be overloaded with too much "stuff" – overwhelmed and on overdrive, in a state of constant stress.

Sometimes the very loved ones who seem to be causing all our problems are just calling attention to deeper issues the rest of the family would rather ignore.

Silly boys. Did you think we were making a silent movie?

False prophets are not motivated by love, but are motivated by a need to be noticed.