Best 2917 quotes in «attention quotes» category

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.

Everything Iʹd been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and see if I had a follower, but that would have definitely attracted attention.

Everything is dependent upon energy. Energy is attention. Attention is awareness.

Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

Every time I have people over, I watch how long they look at every part of the painting, or pictures on my computer. I have a few close friends and people that are constants. Whether I like their opinion or not, I've been hearing it for a long time and I can use it as this constant. I mentally pay attention to how long they look at every image, which ones they pause on and what parts of it they look at.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

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.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

Excuse me, Bane?" said Roderick Morgenstern. "Are you attending?" "I'm so sorry," Magnus said politely. "Somebody incredibly attractive just came into the room, and I ceased to pay attention to a word you were saying.

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

Expert advice on improving ur relationship - 4A's - attention,appreciation, affection & attraction.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

Failure honestly can be like the best lesson and it's like the one that like God wants you to really pay attention to. That's why it hurts. The pain will help you remember how not to walk, what directions not to go.

Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all.

Failure to spend the [presentation] time wisely and well, failure to educate, entertain, elucidate, enlighten, and most important of all, failure to maintain attention and interest should be punishable by stoning. There is no excuse for tedium.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you'll learn what works and what doesn't.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

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

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

Fear can be used to get into your attention. Any way a person can get you to think of them, allows them to drain you.

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.

Few needs are more pressing, or more deserving of our attention, than taking care of the men and women of the U.S. armed forces.

Feel the underlying meaning of the teachings that are espoused by me or anyone else. The word's don't mean much. Words are supposed to be catalysts for higher states of attention. That is where the action is.

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength.

For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

Following dharma puts you in a proper field of attention. In a proper field of attention, regardless of what your outer circumstances are, happiness will flow.

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

For better or worse, the United States enjoys the lion's share of public and media attention. We influence much of the conversation on social and public media by sheer volume.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

For me, intuition comes from experience. After years of experience, a person will have, if they have been paying attention and revising their thinking and behavior, intuitions about their area of experience.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.