Quotes About Attention

Everything that is acknowledges the blessing of existence. Shalt not thou, by a similar acknowledgment, be happy? If thou pay due attention to sounds, thou shalt hear the praise of the Creator celebrated by the whole creation.

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.

An hour of your life is worth more than a thousand people to me.

You can drive." When he raised an eyebrow, she said, "I've had enough contact with human males to realize you seem to have a congenital inability to function while a female is at the wheel, and I'd rather your full attention be on the case.

Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first." "Excuse me if entertaining you isn't at the top of my agenda.

How did you notice that?" "Because I notice you.

Love grows when it is tended.

Thou shalt make sure thy first sentence is a grabbah!

Maybe, when all was said and done, that was where love began and what kept it alive: the simple, everyday act of paying attention.

All have been or believed themselves to be in danger from the pursuit of one they wished to avoid, while they have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please.

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

One thing I'd learned from all the burying I'd attended was that sometimes it's hard to pay attention. Burying someone you know will set your mind down some distant trail, as the one you're really on is too painful to view. at the burial of Ernest, Sarah's brother p177

Slow people are just paying close attention.

When we choose to be different, we have to expect a little attention.

perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need us to see them…

Yet the explanation was simple. These memories had died of inanition. You've got the pay visits to your memories from time to time. You've got to feed them, take them out and air them, show them around, tell them to other people or to yourself. If you don't, they waste away.

If we do not study ourselves with due attention to disturbing patterns in our history, we will be learning little, and democracy can scarcely claim to be the best form of government.

tall women of Swedish descent attract attention that's way out of proportion to our relative importance to the world.

I was starved for attention, while she insisted I didn't like to be hugged.

Epictetus tells us, "It is not easy to gain the attention of young men who are soft, for you cannot get hold of soft cheese with a hook; but the naturally gifted, even if you turn them away, hold all the more firmly to reason.

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Fear isn't actually a bad thing. It's a primitive instinct that's your friend. It warms you to pay attention, because you're in danger. It tells you to do something, to act, to save yourself.

The most careful thing you do is hitting a mosquito on your testis.

She listens at doors and around corners. She has always had this habit. A child in danger must learn to pay more attention to the adults than a child loved and cherished.