Quotes About Attention

He was the winner and now expected to be the object of awe, fascination, and favor. He expected this to be binary: a hostile media would turn into a fannish one.

He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

But not only didn't he read, he didn't listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no matter how paltry or irrelevant—more than anyone else's. What's more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.

We pass a church with a massive blue neon cross, and I am spiritually lifted by feelings of great religiosity. No, I'm not, for crying out loud. Don't be ridiculous. But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life. You have to admire how these people shamelessly try to get your attention as you drive by, whether they're trying to feed you a hamburger or a savior. (p.37)

we instinctively zero in on dangers that are unusual or immediate, while paying much less attention to hazards that unfold more slowly or in a more familiar way.

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

L'avantage de tenir un discours moral, c'est que ce type de propos a été soumis à une censure si forte, et depuis tant d'années, qu'il provoque un effet d'incongruité et attire aussitôt l'attention de l'interlocuteur ; l'inconvénient, c'est que celui-ci ne parvient jamais à vous prendre tout à fait au sérieux. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,15)

People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows – every researcher, every writer, every spy.

todo el mundo se ha acostumbrado a que las personalidades se expresen en los medios sobre los temas más variados y a que por lo general digan cosas previsibles, y ya nadie les presta verdadera atención;

during a press conference he declared (to general bafflement) that he was profoundly influenced by distributism. He had actually said so before, several times, on the campaign trail, but since journalists have a natural tendency to ignore what they don't understand, no one had paid attention and he'd let it drop. Now

Le lien a tenu. Rien ne pouvait le rompre. Mon deuil s'est poursuivi avec l'infinie lenteur du souvenir qui s'enfonce dans la mémoire. Mais j'ai recommencé à tourner les yeux vers l'avenir. J'ai accordé plus d'attention, et plus d'amour aux vivants.

Robinson) Observ? astfel c? aproapele este pentru noi un puternic factor de distragere, nu numai pentru c? ne deranjeaz? tot timpul ÅŸi ne smulge gândului nostru actual, dar ÅŸi pentru c? simpla posibilitate a apariÅ£iei sale arunc? o vag? lumin? asupra unui univers de obiecte situate la periferia atenÅ£iei noastre, in stare insa-n orice clip? s? devin? centrul ei. pag 26

What constitutes charm? A presence, a capacity to command attention, an innate conviction of one's own uniqueness, combined, as often as not, with the more manipulative ability of making the interlocutor believe he has one's undivided attention and has gained a certain indefinable something from the encounter.

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Popularity can be a real headache.

Women", he used to say, "are like a book. You being with the title page. If that is not interesting, then you will not desire to read further. In fact, interesting is better than beautiful. A beautiful title page may attract your attention, but if it's not interesting, you will not continue with it.

The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense.

I confess... if I typo a Facebook post I will edit it. I know it's only Facebook but it's an editing sickness.

Watching television requires less of an effort than reading newspapers and magazines, which is its greatest danger. (Chapter 12)

Torak, kijk achter je! - Renn

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Dr. Richard Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, concludes, "Your grades in school, your scores on the SAT, mean less for life success than your capacity to co-operate, your ability to regulate your emotions, your capacity to delay your gratification, and your capacity to focus your attention. Those skills are far more important—all the data indicate—for life success than your IQ or your grades.