Attention Quotes - Page 36

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author?

Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in them in childhood. When children learn they will get the most attention and love through doing constructive things, they will tend to stop doing destructive things. Most important of all, remember that children learn through example. No matter what you say it is what you do that will have an influence on them.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.

The music I do in live performances is made for a specific situation. I know that people are sitting down and shutting up and they're with me for 90 minutes. They're totally with me. Whatever I do, I know they have my attention and they follow my pace.

You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly.

I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.

People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.

There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

Nothing is boring exept to people who aren't really paying attention.

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.