Quotes About Attention

Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with.

Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with. Yes, true worship always questions the dominant paradigms, even those within the church.

The southern residents are the most photographed, filmed, recorded, and documented mammals on the planet who aren't either running a country or headlining Hollywood blockbusters.

Although we may deplore the film's scatological language, sexual explicitness and gratuitous gore as seemingly designed only to shock, in the manner of an angry, attention-craving child, we must remember that this movie was actually made by an angry, attention-craving child.

Just because you never look at me doesn't mean I'm not here.

Indeed, the Commission on Freedom of the Press had specifically emphasized that the media must pay special attention to the difference between fact and opinion.

Money speaks louder than the public, problems overwhelm it, fatigue sets in, attention falters, cynicism swells. A

we have come to invest so much attention on something so shallow.

a moment in the past, like a bone in the throat, that needed his attention.

There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.

We're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention.

Pino ignored her, focusing instead on the locomotive in an apron chugging out of the kitchen

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.

Somewhere around the place I've got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger's Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.

The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.

I'm keeping in shape, you know, gotta look good for the ladies - and certain guys. Hey, I can't control who's looking. I just gotta bring the heat.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.