Quotes About Attention

Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

I don't hide from cameras or anything. It doesn't bother me. I don't seek our press for the women I'm dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.

Why does every girl in the world wanna date me? Especially right now man, especially when I'm busy!

At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

Attention leads to immortality. Carelessness leads to death. Those who pay attention will not die, while the careless are as good as dead already.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don't read the novel really.

And this, I realized, is the excruciating scrupulosity, the same maddening, meticulous attention to every last detail that makes you great, that keeps you going and got you through and now is dragging you down. Standing with E. I. Lonoff over the disobedient arm of his record player, I understood the celebrated phenomenon for the first time: a man, his destiny, and his work—all one. What a terrible triumph!

La mia mente divaga, - mi disse, un po' come se io fossi un medico passato di lí per informarmi sui suoi strani e inquietanti nuovi sintomi. - Arrivato in fondo alla pagina cerco di riassumere ciò che ho letto, e la mia mente è vuota: sono rimasto seduto in poltrona senza far niente. Certo, ho sempre letto i libri con la penna in mano, ma ora scopro che se non lo faccio, anche quando leggo una rivista, la mia attenzione non resta concentrata su quello che ho davanti a me.

Silk aveva qualcosa che la faceva sempre tornare all'infanzia e alla paura che ha il bimbo precoce di essere visto per quello che è; ma anche alla paura che ha il bimbo precoce di non essere sufficientemente guardato. Temeva di essere smascherata, moriva dalla voglia di essere al centro dell'attenzione: ecco il suo dilemma.

Zen is nothing more than adhering to such simple tasks, with full attention.

Jesus says in effect, 'Do you want to know what it feels like to be God? When one of those two-legged humans pays attention to me, it feels like I just reclaimed my most valuable possession, which I had given up for lost.' To God himself, it feels like the discovery of a lifetime.

Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than educational. Somehow the "victim" of addictive behavior must regain an underlying sense of human dignity and choice, a profound reawakening that usually requires much time, attention, and love.

The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.

In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of "deep reading," which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates of perception, and a slower pace.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

I am a queen she observes. It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eye, which makes her the center of attention.

It seems that we have to be married," he says, a harder note coming into his voice. "I am honored by the interest that Parliament takes in the matter. Your family still has many friends, it seems. Even among those who profess to be my friends. I understand from them that you are insisting on the wedding. I'm flattered, thank you for the attention. As we both know, we have been betrothed for two long years. So now we are going to consummate our betrothal.

I saw his glance flick over me, like a horse trader assessing the value of a filly. Whenever I looked up the king's eyes were on me, whenever I looked away I was conscious of his stare still on my face. When

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.