Quotes About Attention

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us.

Skaitymas - gana sud?tingas psichologinis percepcijos procesas. <...> Tai reikalauja tam tikros intelektualin?s kompetencijos. Bet vis? pirma, reikalauja d?mesio ir susikaupimo - vis retesni? geb?jim? šiandieniniame pernelyg blaškan?iame pasaulyje

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.

the UNICEF State of the World's Children report for 2001 stated that 'for a government that wants to improve the lot of its people, investing in the first years of life is the best money it can spend. But tragically, both for children and for nations, these are the years that receive the least attention.

The summons to wakefulness is therefore a summons to attend to my agency.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Together they owned the large, flamboyant Doctor Beltado. They might ignore him, they might even despise him, but no one else was going to get him.

At first the power of concentration nurtured during sitting for thirty minutes may be lost in an instant as soon as we stop sitting. But later we will be able to retain it for five or ten minutes by means of hoben and kufu.

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

Don't sweat the small stuff; however, on the key stuff, sweat everything.

To make people feel special you don't have to pay money but rather pay attention.

Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.

Lolita... is undeniably news in the world of books. Unfortunately, it is bad news. There are two equally serious reasons why it isn't worth any adult reader's attention. The first is that it is dull, dull, dull in a pretentious, florid and archly fatuous fashion. The second is that it is repulsive.

Today, we know that in the era of the Internet, focused attention has become the rarest commodity in the world. Everyone is speaking, no one is listening, and the resulting familiarity breeds inattention. It is therefore difficult to break through the many levels of resistance and make fresh sense to people.

Ces expressions: « Être aimé », « être adoré », étaient dans mon cas absolument impropres ; « un être dont on s'occupe » eût été beaucoup plus approprié à moi.

In this world, the more superficial, the more you will surely be loved:

Everyone loves you. You're just asking for too much.

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

Any issue, wrote he, the front page of which failed to elicit a 'Gee whiz!' from its readers was a failure, whereas the second page ought to bring forth a 'Holy Moses!' and the third an astounded 'God Almighty!

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.