Quotes About Attention

The nationalism of a small nation can, with treacherous ease, become detached from its roots in what is noble and human. It then become pitiful, making the nation appear smaller rather than greater. It is the same with nations as with individuals; while trying to draw attention to the inadequacies of others, people all too often reveal their own.

Largely ignored, by gurus and governments, are the older, high-impact growth firms. Though they generate almost all of the innovation and job growth in economies, there are not enough of them to garner the favorable attention of politicians or book publishers. For more on this topic, read Verne's interview in Business Review Europe titled "Give the Gazelles a Break".

Manejar el Efectivo, ¡No se quede sin él! Esto significa que debe prestar tanta atención al impacto que tiene cada decisión en el flujo de caja, como a los ingresos y las ganancias.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Claude, saddened and discouraged in his human affections, by all this, had flung himself eagerly into the arms of learning, that sister which, at least does not laugh in your face, and which always pays you, though in money that is sometimes a little hollow, for the attention which you have paid to her. Hence, he became more and more learned, and, at the same time, as a natural consequence, more and more rigid as a priest, more and more sad as a man.

It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army.

Aures habet, et non audiet.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Claude, saddened and discouraged in his human affections, by all this, had flung himself eagerly into the arms of learning, that sister which, at least does not laugh in your face, and which always pays you, though in money that is sometimes a little hollow, for the attention which you have paid to her.

When a woman talks to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

This is at the beginning of my book: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo

He caught glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing.

There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown. Elsa had survived it by being quiet, by not demanding or seeking attention, by accepting that she was loved, but unliked. The hurt had become so commonplace, she rarely noticed it.

Any more motherly attention and I could end up strapped to a table in Ward B singing 'I Gotta Be Me.

Americans. They didn't listen.

Nervous people make poor listeners.

You know, in the past, I would've gotten yelled at for that kind of outspokenness. Now everyone listens as if what I have to say is important, and then they find ways to contradict me. I think I like the yelling better.

The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press…did not foresee…the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal….In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." —ALDOUS HUXLEY, Brave New World Revisited (1958)

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

Here we are now, entertain us.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.