Quotes About Attention

Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of her.

It's just that,well,I'm gonna pull a Brad on you." "You're going to start totally ignoring me?

I blew it." "How'd you do that?" she asked. I gave her a quick rundown of all my most memorable moments, including the mascara fiasco. "Like he noticed," Bird said when I was finished. "Oh, he noticed. I've never had a guy look at me that hard before. He was probably trying to figure out if it was a birthmark, a tattoo, or if I was preparing for Halloween a few months early.

Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig." "Good. I think I'll try a different colour every night.

Cowboys are used to a long focus, looking at a far horizon, not at a computer. So when a cowboy chooses to focus on you, it is a choice and he really focuses, like you matter, not like you just happen to be in his line of vision.

I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect with another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. And especially if it's from the heart. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it.

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

Once, she had ridden her bicycle into a fence just because he had happened to drive past and wave at her.

He swallowed. He'd done that? He didn't have much memory of it, only of a quiet girl with big eyes and long dark hair. "Why would you be mortified? It was an accident." She snorted a little. "Right. I ran into your grandmother's mailbox because I wasn't paying attention to where I was going. It was all your fault for mowing the lawn without your shirt on." He stared down at her. "That's why you crashed?

Her mother could win Olympic gold in fussing.

You have to feed the press or they'll eat you.

To become a great learner, you always need to become a keen observer.

Before the age of two, children who are exposed to television don't really watch the screen for more than a few seconds at a time. The medium is totally inappropriate for the toddler, who needs to be moving and actively exploring.

Attention must be paid' is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.

One of the most fundamental of human fears is that our existence will go unnoticed.

architect Mies van der Rohe is credited with saying, "God is in the details." Delivering

Teresa of Avila makes the point that it isn't whether the prayers are memorized or not or said out loud or not that determines their value, but whether we pay attention to what we're saying and to whom we're speaking.

Khalil Bendib is an equal-opportunity skewer. The more a subject or victim is ignored by the mass media, the more he infuriates, informs, and intensifies the reader's attention. Cartoons need to jolt. Bendib obliges page after page.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

The next message you need is always right where you are.

A Woman trading her beauty for attention is same as a Man exhibiting his intelligence, for these primary survival instincts have been instrumental in the evolution of society.