Close Attention Quotes

52 Close Attention quotes by 50 unique authors

When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see… — Richard Branson
I pay such close attention of the record making process that most people would assume are very little and wouldn't be that big of a… — David Nail
My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got… — Sarah Manguso
When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the… — Barack Obama
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to… — Charles Rosen
The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities. — Frank X. Barron
My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention… — David Plotz
I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get… — Jake Gyllenhaal
In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention. — Lou Holtz
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. — Henry Miller
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention. — Gary Vaynerchuk
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck. — Joss Whedon
Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention,… — Andrea Camilleri
Blissâ€”a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, consciousâ€”lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most… — David Foster Wallace
The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one… — Jeanne DuPrau
Slow people are just paying close attention. — Nancy Farmer
Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He… — Veronica Roth
He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with… — Hermann Hesse
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the… — Rob Bell
One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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