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Quotes About Attention

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
~ Stendhal
It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
~ J. Willard Marriott
The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.
~ Unknown
I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.
~ Anthony S. Fauci
When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.
~ George Washington Carver
The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.
~ Rupert Spira
How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.
~ Sam Harris
We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.
~ Duane Elgin
No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist.
~ Charlie Munger
Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?
~ Bill Keller
What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.
~ Roger N. Walsh
There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.
~ Joseph Boyden
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.
~ Lewis Mumford
My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
~ Colin Powell
Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.
~ Deepak Chopra
To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
~ Manolo Blahnik
Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.
~ Martin Lindstrom
The first sexual experience is a significant imprinting of attention.
~ Frederick Lenz
I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.
~ Jeff Goldblum
Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
~ John Fahey
Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
~ Pete Seeger