Attention Quotes - Page 16

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka.

The wilderness needs your whole attention.

What we give our attention to, grows.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red hair or goes about in a wheelchair, ought to get married or ought not to be pregnant -- see if you can refrain from bringing these astonishing observations to that person's attention.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.

I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.

Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

Attention is a precious commodity.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily schedule…. This is what receives your care and attention--an by definition, your love.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.