Quotes About Attention

Really, every time a person said good-bye to another person, they should pay attention, just in case it was the last time. First things were good, last things not so much so.

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

Men are led by trifles.

If she is pleasing to one man, a girl is taken care of.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

Ladies, if you're at the mall and you think your man is looking at other girls just remember: If your man is at the mall with you... he... loves you.

Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

When a modest man praises himself, people listen.