Attention Quotes

• The term attention deficit disorder completely misses this point. It is not a deficit of attention that we ADD-ers have, it is that our attention likes to go where it wants to and we can’t always control it.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Control
  • DIsoder
  • Misses

• I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go out of my way to champion women's work that I think is not getting enough attention. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. It's like there's no way to make myself not male.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• If I were to give advice to someone that just started a band and how to get someone's attention, you've gotta have a central hub. For us, it was Columbus, Ohio.

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Advice

• The tool the Buddha holds out to free the mind from desire is understanding. Real renunciation is not a matter of compelling ourselves to give up things still inwardly cherished, but of changing our perspective on them so that they no longer bind us. When we understand the nature of desire, when we investigate it closely with keen attention, desire falls away by itself, without need for struggle.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Desire
  • Struggle
  • Changing

• To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

  

  Ricardo Salinas Pliego
  • People
  • Friends
  • Everything

• I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • People
  • Attention

• I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

  

  Caroline Rhea
  • Family
  • Attention

• In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Attention

• You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

  

  Martha Beck
  • School
  • Parents
  • Attention

• Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Art
  • Consciousness
  • Canvas

• 'Peter Pan,' I think, was a game-changer. That was the first song that really had some heartbeat to it... I think that's the song that got people's attention.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • People
  • Game
  • Song

• I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Future
  • Eyes
  • Authority

• All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • Different
  • Attention

• If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • Speak

• The PHYSICAL Act gives our schools the flexibility they need to give physical education the attention it deserves in promoting our children's well-being.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Children
  • Education
  • Attention

• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Work
  • God
  • May

• Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

  

  Clive Sinclair
  • Work
  • She
  • Famous

• Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • People
  • Focus
  • Brain

• As much as I very much want audiences to watch FX's carefully curated and highly contextualized television shows, I'm now glad when anyone takes the time to watch even our competition's television series, as long as it demands their sustained attention and challenges their knee-jerk perceptions.

  

  John Landgraf
  • Time
  • Long
  • Competition

• Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Up
  • God
  • Giving

• When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • People
  • Work
  • Attention

• Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?

  

  Frederick William Faber
  • Truth
  • Attention

• Nick sat beside Simon, who was at his computer. Marcus stood at attention beside the food. Hale had his feet on the table, reading the morning paper. And someone had given the Bagshaws a gun. 'Pull!' Hamish yelled, and Angus pulled a cord and sent a skeet flying across the deep blue water. A split second later, a loud crack was reverberating across the deck. Kat jumped. Hale sighed. The shot went far wide, and Marcus never moved a muscle.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Gun
  • Computer
  • Muscle

• We're all told that people are busy, and have short attention spans, and yet these stories are so marvelous, and really ought to be read.

  

  Harold Evans
  • People
  • Busy
  • Spans

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