Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention. — Oliver Burkeman
Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day. — Jim Rohn
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil
The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention. — Phil Cooke
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear. — Chuck Berry
Short Attention Quotes
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. — Oscar Wilde
A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it. — Immortal Technique
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I think sometimes when you want attention you can wear sunglasses and people are like "Who is that?" — Katerina Graham
Hoes want attention, women want respect. — Drake
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. — Mary Oliver
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. — Andrew Carnegie
If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention. — Miles Davis
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness. — Francis Chan
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. — Charles R. Swindoll
Attention Image Quotes
Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. — Herbert Simon
You always have God's undivided attention. — Charles Stanley
The true art of memory is the art of attention. — Samuel Johnson
The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention. — Sayings
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. — Evelyn Underhill
Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention. — Paulo Coelho
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
I Need Attention Quotes
I know more about making money than anyone else in the world. Most people’s views on money are outdated. If you want to get rich in today’s attention-based economy, then you need to learn modern methods of wealth creation. — Andrew Tate
As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty. — Bill Nighy
I love the construction process and it is always important because we try to experiment and do something new, so the builders are not copying any technique from other projects. Everything is innovative and so I need to be there and be attentive to make sure everything is running smoothly. — Santiago Calatrava
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
America's a great country - you better believe it's a great country, one of the greatest on this planet - but even the greatest needs to pay attention. I wish the powerful sources that run this country could understand that. — Tommie Smith
When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention. — Ronda Rousey
Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention. — Malcolm X
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile. — Danny Hillis
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction. — Chuck Palahniuk
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions. — Michael Shannon
I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a lot of things no one ever thought I could, and I've done it from hard work. — Mike Piazza
No Attention Quotes
Do not think dishonestly... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use. — Miyamoto Musashi
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food. — Wendell Berry
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? — Lee Iacocca
What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again.
Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention. — Andrew Carnegie
Proactively bring passion to everything you touch, to everything you do. No matter what task is in front of you, bring as much enthusiasm and energy to it as you possibly can. Bring your full attention, your full presence, the Godlike quality that each of us has within, to every task in your day. — Marie Forleo
Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay...now be Samurai. — Jerzy Grotowski
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment — Dorian Yates
The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it. — Angelus Silesius
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen
As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has his eyes on Christ. — Gregory of Nyssa
Wanting Attention Quotes
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life. — Henri Nouwen
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention. — Madam C. J. Walker
The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. — Tobey Maguire
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly. — David Walliams
Many of the things you think you want, you'll find you don't want all that much if you pay attention to what it's actually like to gratify those desires. — Peter Attia
We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, they fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries. — Pol Pot
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
If you want to depict something exactly the way it is, it takes a tremendous amount of time. — Akira Toriyama
I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something. — Randy Harrison
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make. — Jane Fonda
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make. — Jane Fonda
Time And Attention Quotes
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention. — Ernest Holmes
Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways — Sayings
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let thing happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. — Robert Peel
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you. — Brandy Norwood
Money and power follow attention. So whoever can get the most attention is the person who takes the most action and sooner or later will get the most results.
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity. — Anne Graham Lotz
When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit. — Quentin Bryce
Makeup is part of my daily routine. It's the time in my mornings when I can concentrate on me, and me alone. Giving yourself the kind of attention is so important - and is something that is definitely glossed over by to many women — Kat Von D
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. — William Cowper
Focused Attention Quotes
We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ.
The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.
More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby
is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth! — John F. MacArthur
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours. — Epictetus
Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.
Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results. — Andrew Wommack
The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking. — Nancy Kline
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Listen to positive people and ignore negative ones. People that doubt, judge, and disrespect you are not worth your time and attention.
Multi-tasking is like balancing spinning plates. Sure, it sounds exciting but you’ll never unlock the compounding effects of narrowly focused attention. — Alex Hormozi
Short-term thinkers are a dime a dozen. Long-term thinkers are extremely rare. History books favor the long-term thinkers. Don't let short-term attention distract you from your long-term vision becoming a reality. Chase the big. — Patrick Bet-David
If there's too much plot happening in animation and people are too focused on what's around the corner, they start feeling like their brain is being ripped in half. You don't know what to pay attention to. — Duncan Trussell
Generally, most people will make the mistake of paying too much attention to the competition. — Naval Ravikant
Attention And Love Quotes
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace. — Adyashanti
I originally started in natural bodybuilding because I was picked on a lot in high school and didn’t get much attention from girls. As I learned to love the process of lifting more and more I started becoming more interested in competing. — Layne Norton
I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it. — Ruth Graham
Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having. — Sayings
And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders. — Cassandra Clare
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. — Deepak Chopra
If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude. — Angela of Foligno
Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life. — Charles Stanley
Attention To Detail Quotes
Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance. — J. R. D. Tata
It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. — J. Willard Marriott
One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you. — Edward T. Hall
Don’t ignore the small things — the kite flies because of its tail. — American Proverbs
The jurist Dahman read the letter for seven days and declared the handwriting was poor. — Moroccan Proverbs
My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis. — Russell Wilson
Good habits create good art. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Treat each choice you make, each action you take, each word you speak with skillful care. The goal is to live your life in the service of art. — Rick Rubin
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. — Don Shula
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. — John Foster Dulles
Drawing Attention Quotes
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. — David Ogilvy
Don't let that little pyramid with the bright eye fool you. That's to draw your attention away from the real thing: the big trapezoid beneath it. — Anton Szandor LaVey
You have something to give and are willing to give it. You do this without fanfare or publicity, drawing attention to the God we worship, not yourselves, and with no thought of what you will receive.That’s what disciples do!. — Linda K. Burton
A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been. — Chuck Close
Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter. — Sheryl Sandberg
It’s wonderful that people are now aware of the gut microbiome but the name draws attention away from the fact that there are also oral, ocular, nasal, skin, and genital in which there are multiple niches microbiomes— all of which play key and unique rules in our health. — Andrew Huberman
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts. — Rachel Weisz
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. — Taylor Hackford
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry... makes people compete for the attention. — Robert Greene
Pay Attention Quotes
We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light. — Watchman Nee
When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention. — Nouman Ali Khan
Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something. They should worry more about the cost of not doing it. — Philip Kotler
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. — Amy Adams
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. — Emily Dickinson
Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two party system unfolding. — Jill Stein
Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So, if you're lacking, start squatting! — Ronnie Coleman
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them? — Prince
Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment. — Amartya Sen
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. — Winston Churchill
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. — Dwight L. Moody
Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing -- all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art -- at the door. — Konstantin Stanislavisky
Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside. Check your little worries, squabbles, petty difficulties with your outside clothing - all the things that ruin your life and draw your attention away from your art - at the door. — Constantin Stanislavski
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson
When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics. — Ruhollah Khomeini
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. — Henry David Thoreau
Yeah, I was a brother on the streets of Compton doing a lot of things most people look down on but it did pay off. Then we started rapping about real stuff that shook up the LAPD and the FBI. But we got our message across big time, and everyone in America started paying attention to the boys in the hood. — Eazy-E
Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves. — Urie Bronfenbrenner
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