Quotes About Attention

Sviare l'attenzione, il segreto è tutto lì, tesoro. Non hai bisogno di chissà quali marchingegni, botole, casse con il doppio fondo, tavoli strani. Ho sempre sostenuto che un uomo disposto a imparare come si svia l'attenzione della gente può sfilare un oggetto dalla tasca, metterlo in un cappello e infine estrarlo. Resteranno tutti a bocca aperta, chiedendosi da dove è spuntata quella roba.

I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be assured, will not be too well pleased if his countenance and figure do not receive proper attention.

The bearded creatures are quite as eager for praise, quite as finikin over their toilets, quite as proud of their personal advantages, quite as conscious of their powers of fascination, as any coquette in the world.

When a rich man is hurt his wail goeth heavens high and none may say he heareth not.

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad.

But, soft! methinks I do digress too much

Hark, how hard he fetches breath.

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

The crow signs as sweetly as the lark when no one's paying attention to them, and I think that if the nightingale sang during the day while all the geese were cackling, people would think it sounded no better than a wren. So many things are made perfect and as they should be by good timing! But quiet. Look how the moon won't be awakened. It must be sleeping with  [Endymion

Framing your solution negatively, such as "Don't shout at me," tends to focus the other's attention even more on the unwanted behavior and may unconsciously reinforce it, particularly if you are shouting back at them. It is more effective to say, quietly, "Please talk to me in a quiet tone." Focus the other's mind clearly on the positive action you want them to take.

Politicians never seemed to learn that criminals paid absolutely no attention to gun laws.

There is much truth in the remark that we see only that which we look for, and to look energetically we must consciously look for something.

But, there! - Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed.

Samie was one of those nosy kind of cats. He would lie up on the red oak limbs and watch every move I made.

The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop. [ New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Uno starnuto attirò l'attenzione di Ross, che spostò lo sguardo e vide Demelza attraversare il cortile con una pila di ciocchi nel grembiule. Stava piovendo e lei non aveva il cappello. Alle sue spalle, Garrick, che crescendo era diventato alto e sgraziato, saltellava come un barboncino, nero, senza coda e con chiazze di pelo riccio. Ross fu sul punto di scoppiare a ridere.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Koniec i bomba, a kto czyta? ten tr?ba!