Quotes About Attention

When something catches your attention just keep your attention on it, stick with it 'til the end, and somewhere along the line there'll be weirdness.

What I mean to say is that a whole lot of technically impossible things are always trying to happen to us, appear to us, talk to us, show us pictures, or just say hi, and you can't pay attention to all of it, so I just pick the nearest technically impossible thing and I let it happen.

Instead of avoiding attention they invited it

Flirting is the act of making a man feel pleased with himself.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

learned from him that the spark between audience and speaker is ignited as you give the audience your full attention. He also advised me that it's okay to feel your fear but remember that most people want you to succeed.

Practice the basics. Run through your presentation again and again. Make sure you know it cold, so you can perform it on autopilot; that way you can turn some of your focus to reading the room instead of having to think about every word you are saying.

O rígido, o já feito, o mecânico, contrariamente ao maleável, ao continuadamente cambiante, ao vivo, o desvio contrariamente à atenção, enfim, o automatismo contrastando com a atividade livre, eis em suma o que o riso ressalta e pretende corrigir.

Ce n'était pas qu'elle ne fût contente de plaire, mais ce contentement n'était pas suffisant pour qu'elle se donnât beaucoup de peine en vue de l'obtenir; quand elle s'était passé un doigt mouillé sur les sourcils, et la langue sur les lèvres, elle avait beaucoup fait.

Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

It is by constant and conscientious attention to daily duties that thoroughness and conscientiousness and honorableness are imbedded in our beings.

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayadère of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising — only these stand a chance.

If I should certainly say to a novice, "Write from experience and experience only," I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, "Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost."

Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

The irony is that even as digitization is making an increasing amount of information available, it is diminishing the space required for deep, concentrated thought.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

At KKR, we devote a great deal of time, attention and creativity trying to dissect, understand and anticipate change with the goal of achieving consistently strong returns for our investors.

The speaker over my head crackled, "There has been a Bell-Atlantic pager misplaced. If anyone has found it, please make this known to a flight attendant." It's under my left foot and you're never seeing it again.

God is not so busy that he overlooks you.