Attention Quotes · Page 69

I grew up in a family where you could never be the center of attention.

— Ronan Farrow

Prayer is not what you do to get God's attention because you are already God's attenttion

— Utia

I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

— Roy Halladay

I need a strong woman who can handle the attention I get and not get upset if I cuddle a stranger for…

— Adriano Zumbo

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

— Eliphas Levi

“Pay attention to your dreams and decide how to make them real. You have to start believing in your ability to do…

— Gift Gugu Mona

Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

— Marshall Rose

To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke…

— Talib Kweli

I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up.…

— Wale

I feel like creating things without getting too hung up on little details, and paying more attention to the importance to the…

— Takashi Tokita

“Did you miss my job description? Or were you just not paying attention the day I busted heads on Olympus? Fucking with…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think I put a lot of special attention towards creating interesting textures and unique sounds. Music essentially boils down to two…

— Flume

Dont live inside the hurt that someones caused you. If they really hurt you, theyre not worthy of that kind of attention.…

— Jessica Stewart

Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be…

— Nita Leland

“Notice that when you say “No” to something, you just gave it attention, energy and focus. In that moment, it also becomes…

— Michael J. Losier

As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me…

— Rodney Crowell

But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention,…

— William Johnson Cory

I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to…

— Amanda Palmer

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured…

— Adam Savage

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.…

— Confucius

So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We…

— Raekwon

People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they…

— Warren Zevon

Only recently have we begun to understand the specific cognitive skills that contribute to business success and how to measure them. Hopefully,…

— Justin Menkes

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

— Mary Oliver

If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

— Andy Stanley

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

— M. Scott Peck

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

— Nicholas Haslam

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

— Guy Martin

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

— Sandra Cisneros

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at…

— Jimmy Cliff

“You’re a genius,” she said. “Hardly,” he said. “I just show up and pay attention.”

— Stephen Hunter

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

— John Medina

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher

— Dave Eggers

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

— Jerry Buss

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

— Maureen Dowd

If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.

— Fabio Cannavaro

We would like to draw the attention of our partners, of potential investors to the Russian Far East.

— Vladimir Putin

I'm all about simple, elegant, and effective, and when I wear the rubber boot on my head, it draws a lot of…

— Vermin Supreme

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh