Best 2917 quotes in «attention quotes» category

If I show somebody something that I've written and they say, "Eh...alright," I just put it away and I never show it to anyone again. But I know people who won't take no for an answer, and eventually someone pays attention.

If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature.

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

If I was to listen and pay attention to everyone that criticized me, I'd stay home under the bed.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

If one party is trusting, it is very easy during sex for the other party to format someone, to put thoughts in their mind, to jam their consciousness or attention, to lower their energy or just take power from them.

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

If possible, to be in a position to announce who is going to step in as the interim immediately. And if possible, to announce who you're going to nominate to replace that person. For that to be somebody of impeccable integrity and reputation disarms a lot of the worst criticism that it's some kind of a power play. It's a professional approach to replacing a senior official, which is always going to get a lot of attention.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesnt that show an incredible attention span?

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life.

If the Olympics fail, human rights will suffer. The government would stop paying any attention to the rest of the world. I personally think: we want the Games and we want human rights to be respected.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.

If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.

If we are paying attention to something, it's important. That's how we decide to pay attention. But a communicator can reroute our attention to something that isn't important, but make it seem important as a consequence.

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture as well as the American culture, then we've done something that's really good and supporting these fishermen who are doing the right thing in sustainability . . . paying attention to make sure we don't overfish our world.

If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

If we have a giant mansion and we don't keep it as well as that room, then our yoga isn't good and our attention field will be very poor and we won't have power, and we'll be totally hooked on the transient .

If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.

If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

If you can get sexual attention and then (or therefore) succeed as a writer - or [fill in career blank] - that means you're a writer worthy of literary respect?

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

if you don't think that all life is improvisation, then you haven't been paying attention. Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.

If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

If you feel lonely within your relationship, pay attention to this inner warning signal!

If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.

If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.