Quotes About Attention

Where are you going?" "Over here, so I don't strike you," Taras replied with his back to Quinlin.

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is press coverage.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you… People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.

When you love someone it catches the attention of the Gods, who punish you.

It had been weeks since anyone had even tried to kill him. As long as someone was trying to kill you, you knew you were important.

L.A. circles the drain of Fame while Washington circles the drain of Power while Wall Street circles the drain of Money, but the biggest players in all three locales are the morbid narcissists, because you just can't tear your eyes off them. Not

disgrace is crucial for driving the public's attention where you want it. The point is to enable the president to control more attention by harnessing the power of disgrace himself. He really needs to own it, punk-rock style, in order to funnel your gaze into exactly the dirty little sweet hole where he wants it. This

There is no good press and bad press. Fame is made of quantities of attention, not qualities, and is therefore binary: There is Press or No Press. Not Hot and Cold, but Hot and Off. Attention is the currency in a world with too many people—whoever arrests the news cycle long enough to make themselves the topic, wins. Personal

Samantha Dunn] wrote that when God wants your attention, first He throws feathers. After that, He starts throwing bricks.

He's never shown the slightest interest in you before. I mean, he's never stared at you like you're the only person in the room when we're al together. Or sulked around for days because you turned him down for a dance. Or touched the sleeve of your sweater when he thinks no one's looking -

You know, if you're going to take me aside when I'm behaving badly, I may start behaving worse. Just to get some attention from you." His eyes briefly catch the light and glow gray-green for a moment. "Possibly even some admiration.

To recognize understand and learn how to protect a new ecosystem requires much more time and attention than it does to exploit and destroy one.

Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was… I'll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn't heard a word because she's studying my face to see if the foundation I'm using is a good match for my skin tone.

God belongs to those who manage to get him. God appears when you're distracted.

It's like this: only when man takes notice through his simple gaze does a beginning appear to him.

A guerra é boa talvez no sentido de chamar a atenção para certos problemas.