Quotes About Attention

I have never been much at nonverbal communication. Additionally, I don't have much of an attention span, and what I lack in patience I make up for in ambivalence and an inability to sleep.

There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.

Attention, people talking about me: I. Am. Right. Here.

Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.

Come now, ladies. That's enough," he told them. "We have serious work to do here.

too much dystopianism, too frequently or easily deployed, has its own costs. It's important to distinguish policies we don't like from policies that attempt a fundamental transformation of political institutions. That's true for purposes of conserving critical resources. But it's also true for purposes of drawing public attention and debate.

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

What the big print on the front giveth, the little print on the back taketh away!" If you want to be a successful negotiator, force yourself to read everything carefully. Conversely, there's nothing wrong with hiding something that's important to you but likely to be unacceptable to the other side in an inconspicuous place. If it's spotted and raised by the other side, discuss it normally; never plead guilty to using trickery.

Good intentions are not the whole story. You must also pay attention.

All some people want from you is for you to recognize their existence — and not mind it.

Speak the truth and you will be conspicuous. The human race loves novelty.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.

Before the news and polling cycles accelerated, leaders assumed that the electorate understood reform was a long game. Not anymore. The digital age has shrunk the public attention span and lured government into making each thing it says appear to be a big idea. p225

With patient inattention hear him prate.

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.

It's normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.

To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and, at the same time, hardest to acquire is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty; seeing, an art.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Caring has the gift of making the ordinary special.

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean.

Learn to use yours ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.

There were other things to tend to first. There were other debts to pay.