Attention Quotes

4929 Attention quotes by 3118 unique authors

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among all the emotions, the rich have the least talent for love. It is possible to love one's dog, dress or duck-shooting hat, but a… — Lewis H. Lapham
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an… — Marcel Proust
To fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best. — Wallace D. Wattles
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a… — Anne Lamott
When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But… — Italo Calvino
Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear?… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to… — Eduard Suess
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. — D. H. Lawrence
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to… — Mark Twain
There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model. — Linda Ronstadt
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house! — Nanci Griffith
The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention — Ruth Messinger
Don't allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you. — Wayne Dyer
I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the… — Edgar Mitchell
Pay more attention to losing inches than losing pounds. — Jane Fonda
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. — Walter Bagehot
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. — Constantin Stanislavski
When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying… — Albert Einstein
There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my… — Albert Einstein
I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which… — Boris Gelfand
The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn't expect. I've shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of… — Emily Ratajkowski
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively… — Barbara Kruger
GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF. — Barbara Kruger

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