Quotes About Attention

Why is it that girls think boys will notice them if they're loud anyway.

The many ways in which Spirit gets our attention are like a brilliant tapestry--this for you, that for me.

Will you call me first thing tomorrow?" "I must say, if I knew all this creepy stuff was going to elicit this much attention from you, I'd have gotten myself harassed weeks ago." "Adam, I'm serious.

Parent time is magic: downtempo and supersonic all at once, witch's time, sorcerer hours. Suddenly, while you aren't paying attention, everything's changed.

If you don't worry about something until it's already a problem," said Rosie, "that's not worry. That's observation.

We don't need something to have happened to talk about it, though. Teenage girls don't get enough credit for this, their ability to see the potential import of everything, no matter how insignificant it seems, and analyze it endlessly. It's written off—we're written off—as silly, but it's the opposite. We understand instinctively that change is slow. If you're not paying attention, you'll miss it.

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

Patience allows you to shift attention in a positive way.

There are two types of problems: the ones we pay attention to so that we can come up with solutions, and those from which we run away.

Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.

I'm always amazed when adults say that children "just did that to get attention". Naturally children who need attention will do all kinds of things to get it. Why not just give it to them?

The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd have to shake their arm and say, 'Look! Look!

The one who pays attention to the dreams, draws on them, and lives them out is blessed, even as the one who dreams is also dreamt. We each take our turn at living out the dream. Like some ageless wave, Scripture flows through us.

Pay especially close attention to the seemingly trivial details and the little discrepancies.

We must not allow embarrassment to distract attention from elements that make us uncomfortable. Disgust and dread are the sorts of feelings we frequently marshal to conceal deeper layers of our psyche.

the candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover

Steve paid attention to every nuance of the slides, even details that, as far as I could tell, were invisible to the naked eye, like font kerning—which is adjusting the space between letters—and font smoothing to make sure the curves on each font were perfect. He hired a presentation professional, Wayne Goodrich, to help finalize these details and to make sure that at every single stop on the road show, all the pieces were in place to show the presentation and video perfectly.

You can observe a lot by watching.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

Each of us has only a quantum of compassion ... if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

She glanced over abstractedly, still keeping company with her most recent thought.

Someone started taking notes, Steve said, 'You don't need to takes notes. If it's important, you'll remember it'.

You don't need to take notes. If it's important, you'll remember it.