Quotes About Attention

It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.

A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in three states on Tuesday. Got a huge amount of fundraising. That's the good news for Rick Santorum. The bad news: people are now Googling 'Santorum.'

A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

You've got a good idea, how do you make it stick?

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you.

Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'

Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.

It's very good for us to say, as liberals, that we should be moved by everything, but the fact is that there's just so much competing for our attention.