Quotes About Attention

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

We'll continue to work hard to do a better job in every area going forward. I don't know where those little things will come from but we'll continue to be diligent on them.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.

In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

I don't work. I merely inflict myself on the public.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.