Attention Quotes - Page 22

For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.

The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.

Descartes says: I think, and I am every moment I am thinking, because I have this inner awareness of myself. And I always thought there was something fishy about that. I don't think there's any privileged self-knowledge. Most of our attention is to things outside us.

When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Talk to your customers. Find out what they need. Don't pay any attention to the competition. They're not relevant to you.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.

I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are.

I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?

I love men and I like to get their attention.

You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull. When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

I didn't pay a lot of attention as I should have in college.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.

I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.

But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.

The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.