Attention Quotes - Page 3

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?

God dwells in the details.

You always have God's undivided attention.

At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.

The one thing we all have in common is that we're human. Why pay more attention to the things that make us different over the things that bring us together?

Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn't have its place. Love's mute.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.

[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons.... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.