Quotes About Attention

'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.

If a movie crosses budget and becomes a hit, no one cares. They care only when it doesn't do well.

There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.

When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

É engraçado, mas já reparou que, quanto mais especiais são as coisas, menos atenção as pessoas parecem dedicar a elas? Parece que acham que nunca vão mudar.

he'd been watching her always, he was probably watching her now.

How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name?

I'm equally sure, however, that I won't walk into a lamp-post while reading {literature}, like I did with {a legal thriller} all those years ago; you don't walk into lamp-posts when you're reading literary novels, do you?

You want to talk about big things, but it's the catches on the garden sheds and the London Zoo cards that give you the footholds; without them you wouldn't know where to start.

No one's stopping you, said Jess. But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits.

He had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention. How you said something could be more important than what you said.

What often fails to be appreciated by everybody is just how significant an act of leadership it is, simply to give somebody your undivided attention for a while.

It also noted that the test for reasonableness … "is not capable of precise definition or mechanical application," and therefore the test's "proper application requires careful attention to the facts and circumstances of each particular case.

I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen.

One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn't, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

When he read a book he gave himself over entirely to commas and semicolons, to the space after the period and before the capital letter of the next sentence. He discovered the places in a room where silence gathered; the folds of the curtain drapes, the deep bowls of the family silver. When people spoke to him he heard less of what they were saying, and more and more of what they were not.

Who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness?

VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there

The watched watching the watcher.

When we pay attention to life, it is easy to recognize that every action has a consequence: when we cling, we suffer; when we act selfishly or violently, we cause suffering for ourselves or others. This is the teaching of karma: positive actions have positive outcomes; negative actions have negative outcomes.

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.