Attention Quotes - Page 32

Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

I think I'm really feel I've done so much that I'm OK with not having everybody's attention. Sometimes it's overbearing. I used to think that I would never feel this way. Before, I used to buy all the tabloids and see if I was in them.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity, and with a monetary system which rigidly links the quantity of money to the stock of the precious metals, it will be essential for the maintenance of prosperity that the authorities should pay close attention to the state of the balance of trade. For a favourable balance, provided it is not too large, will prove extremely stimulating; whilst an unfavourable balance may soon produce a state of persistent depression.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

I should pay attention to what I know and not talk more just because I won a Nobel Prize.

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes as an expense.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of." That's basically what you're after. "Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As." That's all you're looking for.

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!