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Quotes About Attention

Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear.
~ Dylan Moran
Now, the band that inspired that great saying, "Stop The Music!!"
~ Henny Youngman
The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.
~ Kim Askew
I've always felt I deserved a wider audience, so thank you for reading this.
~ Ivana Hruba
Auntie Yang is not hard of hearing. She is hard of listening.
~ Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Big changes could come quickly, and he wondered what else might happen to his heart while he wasn't paying attention.
~ C. J. Milbrandt, Meadowsweet
You must feed them, Anne, else they eat their toys.
~ Susan Kaye, None But You
You gotta look out for number one, but don't step in number two!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Wisdom of the Ages: "Look out Below!" Air Asia's catchy new advertising slogan.
~ Matthew Heines
A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Get out of bed and feed me already, person!
~ Rachel Cohn
Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn't be bored." Garrett Graham, my own personal sweet-talker.
~ Elle Kennedy, The Deal
It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.
~ Duop Chak Wuol
I'm fascinated by idiots... Here's looking at you, kid!
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Watching a movie should be like hunting. Out of context, every image of the cinema is yours for a split second. Take them before they bury it.
~ John Waters
We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
~ Publilius Syrus
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
~ Karl Philipp Moritz
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
~ Bruce Greenwood
Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.
~ Nita Leland
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
~ Barry S. Strauss
Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~ Mary Oliver
Lose your mind and come to your senses.
~ Frederick Salomon Perls
People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
~ James Cameron