Attention Quotes · Page 123

I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.

— David Brooks

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

— Thomas Malthus

The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed…

— David Foster Wallace

“Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

I do everything with a purpose, and I don't really pay attention to the negativity.

— Jermaine Fowler

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

— Sam Harris

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

— Jack McDevitt

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

— Eckhart Tolle

Buddhism is perception, gaining control of the mind and directing one's attention, to raise the kundalini energy so that it flows with…

— Frederick Lenz

The music I do in live performances is made for a specific situation. I know that people are sitting down and shutting…

— Nils Frahm

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things…

— Booker T. Washington

It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the…

— Benjamin Carson

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired.…

— James Stockdale

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists,…

— Eric Schlosser

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development…

— Robert Genn

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

— Frank Herbert

We do objectify women in our culture. We're starting to objectify men a little bit more. And there is nothing wrong with…

— Tom Ford

At a fundamental level, as human beings, we are all the same; each one of us aspires to happiness and each one…

— Dalai Lama

High fashion is so... not serious, but you know, it's self-explanatory. It's about the clothes. And then the Victoria's Secret show is…

— Taylor Hill

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's…

— Jennifer Weiner

David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats.…

— John Connolly

It's probably no coincidence with the internet and social media and the word being able to spread beyond the radio, where fans…

— John Petrucci

I liked making people laugh. I remember that specifically, being really young and having my parents being in the audience and laughing.…

— Kaitlin Olson

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

— Simone Weil

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

— Red Auerbach

“Then again, maybe that’s why I’m drawn to wonder: it pays no attention to priorities.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.

— Ramana Maharshi

The reason I became a Christian is the same reason I became a conservative: I paid attention.

— Orson Bean

The best way to get somebody's attention is with a little quiet, and then yell at 'em.

— Keith Jackson

Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort.

— Georgia Salpa

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

— Julian Schnabel

“There is no necessity to pander to the attention of others if it isn’t desired”

— Steven Redhead

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

— Victoria Wood

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

— Tituss Burgess

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

— Buddy Guy

Anything that takes a lifetime to build and seconds to destroy , deserves your complete attention.

— Anonymous

Don't make the person feel like they need to beg for your attention because there are other people they can find.

— Enhance Dreams

Giving all of your attention to a person that isn't giving you any attention is a waste of time.

— Sonya Parker

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

— Nicklas Lidstrom