Attention Quotes

• I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Study

• 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

• He directed her attention to another question: "When I speak to you in your language, what happens to mine? Does my language continue to speak, but in silence?

  

  Abdelkebir Khatibi
  • Attention
  • Question
  • Language

• With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose them quick. With the comedy, you've always got another joke to redeem yourself. Or, even if you've only got one joke, at least the punch line is at the end. Then they have to at least pay attention until the end.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Judging

• I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Attention

• The benefits of growth have not trickled down. Income inequalities have become one of the biggest global challenges, attracting growing attention not only in academic literature but also among policymakers globally.

  

  Jose Angel Gurria
  • Attention
  • Income
  • Inequalities

• I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.

  

  Shooter Jennings
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Gone

• There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

  

  John Calvin
  • Soul
  • Attention
  • Proverb

• Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment, because their own presence is so instinctive, their attention so unwavering, the offer us a different kind of compassion than humans do. Anyone is lucky to have both human and animal comfort in their lives.

  

  Brenda Peterson
  • Humans
  • Compassion
  • Animals

• For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius with an attention to detail, his ravenous hunger for all aspects of knowledge that might feed into his work. But the major thing that makes him Sherlock is his relationship with Watson - their friendship. For me, that, I guess, is the biggest side, the more interesting side than the genius.

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • Different
  • Book
  • Interesting

• It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Women
  • Political
  • Effort

• As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Important
  • Action

• The first quality to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of anything of oneself. It sounds simple but only the very greatest doctors ever fully attain it. ... The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only interference from experience stored and not actively recalled. ... The last aptitude I shall mention that must be attained by the good physician is that of handling the sick man's mind.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Mind
  • Patient
  • Physician

• I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

  

  Helmut Lang
  • Never
  • Interested
  • Been

• A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Drawing

• We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.

  

  Daniel Byman
  • People
  • Political
  • Police

• I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

  

  Joshua Roman
  • Attention
  • Focus

• The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her use of language becomes careless.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Up
  • Attention

• I've struggled with depression, and the signs that I was falling apart - having heart palpitations at 4 A.M. - were there for a long time before I paid attention. Even when my psychiatrist gave me a questionnaire, I found myself trying to circle the answers that made me seem like I wasn't a wreck. I've since learned to listen to my body.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

  

  Barbara Brennan
  • Action
  • Judge
  • Motive

• If you're in music for the right reasons, you don't pay much attention to the grueling industry. For sure, it's great to have your work appreciated, but it should never be the driving factor. If you don't depend solely on affirmation from the industry to continue to find love in what you do, then you can have as along of a career as you want. I've always been in this for the music and that won't change.

  

  Nikki Yanofsky
  • Music
  • Career
  • Appreciated

• Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

  

  Constantin Stanislavski
  • Attention
  • Period

• Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Coffee
  • Alert
  • Psychologists

• Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • Attention

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