Quotes About Attention

I suppose almost everyone who writes is afflicted some of the time by the suspicion that nobody out there is listening

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more than token attention to the preoccupations of the society outside. The action is everything, more consuming than sex, more immediate than politics; more important always than the acquisition of money, which is never, for the gambler, the true point of the exercise.

Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.

Slowed time is -- or should be -- a way of pointing to what's important.

Odious people will always talk and make a to-do over nothing. It is always like that.

When Arthur was present, you did not look at anyone else.

It seemed that people could walk through life without causing a ripple, leading ordinary and uneventful lives. It was only after they'd been murdered that people took notice of them.

Whenever someone told her not to think about something, it had quite the opposite effect. Once she knew she shouldn't dwell on something, it took on even more importance in her mind.

C'è un fascino indescrivibile nel maneggiare anonimi blocchi di copertura grezza, nel grattugiarli a mano nei grandi paioli di ceramica - non uso mai il miscelatore elettrico - e dopo nel sciogliere, mescolare, provare ogni mossa accurata con il termometro per lo zucchero fino a quando si raggiunge la giusta gradazione di calore per ottenere la trasformazione.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

You keep distracting me," I tell her. "All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you!" "Exactly," I say, and I smile at her.j

It made me think of my mother, when she made her pie crusts. She'd prick little holes all over the place. So it can breath, she said. I was just breathing. I closed my eyes, anticipating each cut, feeling that wash of relief when it was done.

I hadn't been thinking, actually. I was just trying to get to a place where I'd be noticed.

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

We know your life sucks, we read about it everyday on Facebook.

Back then you didn't want me now I'm hot you all on me

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

Be careful that you don't lose your false teeth when you go to blow out all 50 candles.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.