Best 2917 quotes in «attention quotes» category

Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

Any given moment contains unlimited futures that can become real. The reality that occurs is the one you pay attention to.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

Anything which draws attention to me because I am so attractive.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

Any wrong decision you have ever made will become unimportant when your attention has shifted from it to a creative reason for living right here and now.

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

A person who doesn't dress well, who doesn't spend time and attention with their physical being, has a very loose being.

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.

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

A relationship needs constant attention. It’s a living thing, not just a habit. You’ve got to keep on top of it.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

Are you okay?" she whispers, giggling. Me? Oh sure. You might have to carry me out of here, though." What happened?" I created a distraction." I gathered that." Step stool, encyclopedias, floor." I see. Well, I can't thank you enough." Sure you can. Help me flunk enough tests, so I drop out of the 'torian range." Can't you just tell Abernethy that you have a reputation as a dumbshit to keep up, and you don't want the attention?" Flunking is more fun.

Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - now is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Art is born in attention.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

As a child, Zaphod had been diagnosed with ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflactulance Disorder (not to mention) A Bit Thick.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.

As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to which you can in principle direct your attention.

As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.

As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited... Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the power you want, to use in any direction.

As an actor, I've always paid attention on sets. I've always watched, learned and listened, and you start to see things differently. You always leave yourself an out.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

As a writer, I never paid much attention to the length of titles. I've just wanted them to communicate the emotional overtones of the content of a record or song that they are describing

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.