Quotes About Attention

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.

I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.

The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks.

The little things are infinitely the most important.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

Trifles make perfection - and perfection is no trifle.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.

It's the little things that count, so count the little things.

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

...perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.

By this Yoshida explains that 'when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera's lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye's constant movements in order to focus on one point.

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