Attention Quotes - Page 21

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

Where Attention goes Energy flows; Where Intention goes Energy flows!

When you pay attention to detail, the big picture will take care of itself.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

I try not to go crazy, but yes, I pay attention to what I eat

The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

What does your attitude proclaim to the world about you today? It is never to late to change your story, start by changing your thoughts and pay attention to your attitude.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?

I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was.

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.

Attention is the currency of leadership.

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off with a killer, to grab the attention. Then you've got to take it up a notch, or cool it off a notch…oh, there are a lot of rules.