Best 2917 quotes in «attention quotes» category

Wouldn't it be great if we could be a little less judgmental and a little more forgiving of each other's humanness? We're only here a short time. Let's pay more attention to the good and not the bad in one another.

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Writing on the blog, you want to get attention and make strong claims. In academic work, that often doesn't pay, so sometimes it's a little bit difficult going back and forth to navigate these differences.

Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.

Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.

Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because I respect that first go at the story. If I don't have the key in that first draft, I invariably won't get it in subsequent drafts, though I can craft around it.

You always have God's undivided attention.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

You are a creator; you create with your every thought. You often create by default, for you are getting what you are giving your attention to wanted or unwanted but you know by how it feels if what you are getting (creating) is what you are wanting or if it is not what you are wanting. (Where is your attention focused?)

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

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

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names... If you don't know the names of plant and animal species that share your neighbourhood, you don't care about them and can't protect biodiversity.

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.

You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.

You can't help noticing an amazing ass. Pretty naked ladies will always get my attention. Revealingly dressed good-looking women will always get my attention, at least for a moment.

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health. A lot of people get into serious relationships thinking they're going to heal someone with their love and attention, but it doesn't usually work out that way.

You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.

You create attention to attract attention.

You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene.

You do not have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money. The key is, you have to find ways of improving the way you feel from right where you stand before things can begin to change: By softening your attention to the things that are going wrong, and by beginning to tell stories that lean more in the direction of what you want instead of in the direction of what you have got, your vibration will shift; your point of attraction will shift - and you will get different results.

You don't get the attention of gluttons by starving anorexics.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

You don’t pay attention man/that’s why your money is the size of your attention span.

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

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL!

You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

You have an inner prosperity guide: your intuition. When you begin to pay attention to it, it will lead you to this truth - Abundance is your birthright.

You have developed the second attention much more than you realize and you use it more than you realize as a woman. That's why I feel women can attain enlightenment more easily than men.

You have something to give and are willing to give it. You do this without fanfare or publicity, drawing attention to the God we worship, not yourselves, and with no thought of what you will receive.That’s what disciples do!.

You have the attention span of a large bug, and yet I don't feel good enough about myself to not date you.

You have only 30 seconds in a TV commercial. If you grab attention in the first frame with a visual surprise, you stand a better chance of holding the viewer. People screen out a lot of commercials because they open with something dull. When you advertise fire-extinguishers, open with the fire.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.

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

You have to have a feeling for where you are. You've got only one life to live and you don't have to live it for six people. Pay attention to it.

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