Attention Quotes - Page 55

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

My attention is the most valuable resource I have. I can protect it with an information diet.

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.

I get an opportunity to communicate with the audience about the movie that I've made. I get the chance to bring attention to the film that I've made. I care a lot about the movies that I make. I want them to reach an audience, and I want them to be successful. I promote nearly everything that I do, unless I've got some bad taste in my mouth.

But as the business grows, you get more attention, and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give less to what you’re doing.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

Attention is the opium of the people

It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.

You are of no advantage to anyone who has your negative attention.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.

In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

I don't talk to the groupies. I talk to nice, upstanding women. The groupies don't get my attention. It's the women that I like.

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.