Attention Quotes

I'm a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don't dwell on long-term goals.

R. Madhavan
- Attention
- Goals
- Dwell
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

Susan Sontag
- World
- Attention
- Writer

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

Sean O'Casey
- People
- Work
- Giving
I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.

Jason Calacanis
- Important
- Attention
We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

Diane Ackerman
- World
- Attention
- Magic
I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.

Andrew Revkin
- Hate
- Reason
- Risk
May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people.

Eric Frank Russell
Reading of this kind cannot be done in a hurry. To enter a very good, or a great book (the latter are admittedly rare, but there are good reasons why we refer to them as classics), is to enter a world: the world created by the text, and the implicit world of the author’s voice, style, sensibility – indeed, the author’s soul and mind. This takes an initial stretching of the mind, a kind of going out of the imagination into the imaginative landscape of the book we hold in our hands. It is often a good idea to read the beginning of a book especially slowly and attentively; as in exploring a new house or place – or person – we need to make an initial effort of orientation and of empathy. Eventually, if we are drawn in, we can have the immensely pleasurable experience of full absorption – a kind of simultaneous focusing of attention and losing our self-consciousness as we enter the imaginative world of the book.

Eva Hoffman
- Book
- Soul
- Reading