Attention Quotes - Page 29

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd be willing to jump through hoops to win and keep them.

Remember something about attention. Yes, it’s possible to buy, grab, or even steal it. But it’s far better to earn it.

Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.

That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.

Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.

If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.

We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

If as a family we must be selective listeners, then let us pay more attention to the words of the heart and less to the words of anger