Quotes About Attention

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

If you drive at precisely twenty-nine miles per hour, the rumble strips play 'Jerusalem' on the car tires. Listen." Mary slowed to the correct speed and

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Those that see to much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

They turned their attention to the wardrobe that held several Armani suits, all of them individually tailored to fit Humpty's unique stature and held up on hangers shaped like hula hoops.

Candidates who reach out to recruiters through LinkedIn are much more likely to break through the clutter and get recruiters' attention than are people who simply send in a resume and/or leave a voice mail.

P.S. is read with regularity (more often than is body copy).

You must do the thinking for the reader of your resume.

Many people mistakenly try to decide if they want the job during the interview. Big mistake! This will distract you during the interview, and your lack of focus will be apparent to the interviewer. Focus on getting the offer.

Al Mahara is to good taste what Adolf Hitler was to world peace.

What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories without consequences).

Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.

if you're paying attention, if your eyes and your ears and your mind are open, as they should be open. You can know and then, critically, hold on to that knowledge, even if he loves you (or seems to), even if he chooses you (or seems to), even if he promises to make you happy (which no one, not one person on the planet, can possibly do). And part of her, a big part of her, had obviously wanted to be the one who told them this. Because I am such a competent

were greeted warmly, but Ayla felt they were interrupting something. Everyone seemed to be looking at them, as though

She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.

If there was reassurance in being looked at, it was not the same as being looked after—or being truly seen.

We will not go to Heaven, Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, not hands to touch each other. Up there God gets all the attention...

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. This is astonishing: my hearing does not improve, yet I hear them better and better. I must have butterfly hearing.

It seems obvious, doesn't it, that someone who is ignored and overlooked will expand to the point where they have to be noticed, even if the noticing is fear and disgust.

There's this world,' she banged the wall graphically, 'and there's this world,' she thumped her chest. 'If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.

It's always the same with diversions; you get involved.

When was the last time you looked at anything, solely, and concentratedly, and for its own sake? Ordinary life passes in a near blur. If we go to the theatre or the cinema, the images before us change constantly, and there is the distraction of language. Our loved ones are so well known to us that there is no need to look at them, and one of the gentle jokes of married life is that we do not.