Quotes About Attention

What?" Simon looked alarmed. "I'm not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman for her age.

Now don't go wandering off, William," she said with a meaningful glance. "I don't want to lose you in the crowd." Will's jaw set. "I'm getting the oddest feeling that you're enjoying this," he said under his breath. "Nothing odd about it." Feeling unbelievably bold, Tessa chucked him under the chin with the tip of her lace fan. "Simply behave yourself.

Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?" "I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.

The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell.

Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." "Of course they are," he said. "I am stunningly attractive.

If I'd just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn't have happened

If Jace was gold, catching the light and attention, Alec was silver. And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.

Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.

From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen.

From the day I could talk, I was ordered to listen.

Funny how a thing like that can be so damned important, but you don't know it's important until an instant later in the big scheme of time. Then you go back and try to retrieve it. You tell yourself it's in there somewhere. But it's really in that no-man's-land of the moment before you woke up and started paying attention to your own life.

Thank you. I'm honored. Most people pay very little attention. People are funny, don't you think? I used to play for the philharmonic, and people would pay good money for those tickets. Big money. But I sit out here and play the same music, and most people won't even flip me a quarter as they walk by. Same music. Just a different sense of how much they should value it.

I sat there and listened to every word, but it didn't really add up to something coherent to me. Maybe my brain was too busy, or maybe you have to know the legal system, or both.

Don't waste any energy on anything but what's in front of you.

You can always tell what someone loves, because they pay attention to it. No matter what you say you love, what you really love is what you put the most time into.

Unlike Ed, she listened. But then she forgot.

After a while you look at a picture and all it helps you remember is the picture. And then it gets kind of memorized and you hardly even see it.

There are only just so many times you can look at something before you no longer see it.

There's more to bagging groceries than you think. It's not as easy as it looks. There's a lot to know.

What can you do with a world where people do not even see?

Now, either nobody knows or nobody cares. Or maybe they just don't pay attention. They are too busy looking at their cellular phones.

So you're saying you don't feed something in a situation where it would be a big disaster for it to grow.

Behind all political success is attention to detail." LARRY O'BRIEN, adviser to John F. Kennedy

I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.