Quotes About Attention

Sauber gemacht wird erst, wenn einem der Dreck Tränen in die Augen treibt!

The greatest gift you can offer anyone or anything, is your undivided attention.

Belichick's 'genius'- a term he does not like applied to himself- is more than an ability to easily sift through distractions and nonsense and identify the central point.

I've never liked eating sweets, so waving a box of chocolates in front of me won't get my attention. For some people, chocolate is a severe temptation. But put me in a well-stocked bookstore and I'll have to restrain myself from buying all those wonderful reference books!

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

Minorities received the highest level of positive attention and the greatest influence on the private opinions of members of the majority and on the final group decision when they communicated face-to-face. —Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

Many of the modeling mistakes are modeler's poor listening skills.

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Whatever we place our attention upon becomes more because we place our attention upon it. If we talk about terror, read about terror, think about terror, watch fear-based programming on the television, then we appreciate terror. This is why all masters of manifestation instruct us to place our attention on the feelings of what we seek, not upon what we do not seek.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

Had people become so accustomed to not looking that they were no longer able to see?

In any given cereal aisle, two hundred cereal brands—and their spinoffs—compete for the shopper's attention, so food manufacturers now spend nearly twice as much money on advertising their cereals as they do on the ingredients that go into them.

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

As infants grow, they learn to manipulate their surroundings to their own gratification. A smile, grunt, kicking of the feet, rolling and shaking the head, crying, and screaming all say, "Pick me up, feed me, look at me. Doesn't anyone realize I have urgent needs? What could be more important than me?

Obviously I have this strange animal magnetism. It's very hard to take my eyes off myself.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

they immersed themselves paradoxically in vision-directed reality testing: no rose-colored glasses, no blind spots, no positive thinking. Ruthless attention to reality was the common path to attaining their visions.

If the human looks at anyone or anything other the place where food is kept, interrupt the view, explaining that you have not been fed in days, perhaps weeks, and you need sustenance this instant. As in immediately. Or sooner.

Always look for sparrows before you look for canaries.

Hence at any moment only part of the visual elements of a scene is available for conscious perception.

Today, they would have put me on Ritalin or put me in a nuthouse. They'd call my lack of attention a disease. It wasn't. It was called boredom!

If I went to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, I didn't go for the horse or the elephant – I went for the freak show in the back: the one-breasted man; the half-bearded woman (in other words, the people who today have become politicians). In my day they were in the back room of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey

No matter how beautiful women are, they're always worried that they aren't attractive enough. They need to be reassured. A few don't, but even they appreciate the attention.