Attention Quotes - Page 19

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.

Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities.

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

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

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

The Beatles are lucky, very lucky. But what has happened to them has nothing to do with them, in a sense. They came along at the right time. Attention was focused on them. They've had the chance to grow in almost any direction they wanted. Very lucky. They are not exceptionally talented.

Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.

Attention: a sacred energy coming into me. Be sensitive to it. Recognize again and again that it is there

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL!

Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He's always been someone I've learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to.

Like people, plants respond to extra attention.

A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.