Attention Quotes - Page 31

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.

We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

Slow people are just paying close attention.

I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.

Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.

We have no control over outcomes, but we can control the process. Of course, outcomes matter, but by focusing our attention on process, we maximize our chances of good outcomes.

People dont pay attention until they have to

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

We need to pay attention to the questions non-Christians are asking, and the conversations that Christians are having.

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.

Hip-hop is youthful. The youth determines which direction it's gonna go. I think your thoughts and your visions starts to change, and you start to pay attention to things, as far as the world goes, a little bit later on in life.

But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

The goal in any God-centered relationship should be to continually point the other person towards Christ, not continually draw attention towards you.

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention - incites a pleasurable compulsion to 'follow' - is either a tried metrical suasion-contrivance or a specially invented pattern of physical insistences, equally, if not more, binding in its effect on the reader. From a straight linguistic point of view, there is room for wonder if there is not latent vice in this environment in which pleasurable physically-compelled responses, produced by incidents of poetic utterance, are identified with the Good.