Quotes About Attention

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, T shall never, never forget!' 'You will, though,'the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ... to watch what each day brings.

Most people would rather be seen through than not seen at all.

I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

A good speech, like a woman's skirt, should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens, London, England.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

How many opportunities present themselves to a man without his noticing them?

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.

The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.