Attention Quotes

• A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Attention
  • Season
  • Disposition

• What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mean
  • Curiosity
  • Thoughtful

• Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Attention
  • Details

• The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

  

  Red Auerbach
  • World
  • Love
  • Forget

• The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Attention
  • Spirit
  • Wellness

• Had we listened a little bit more and paid attention to the hardware that was talking to us, we probably could have prevented the accident. We need to learn from the mistakes we made ... I am continually reminding myself that we're in a dangerous business.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Business
  • Mistakes
  • Accident

• Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Die
  • Word
  • Apple

• What does your attitude proclaim to the world about you today? It is never to late to change your story, start by changing your thoughts and pay attention to your attitude.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Change
  • Attention
  • Attitude

• Attention is a precious commodity.

  

  Brian Solis
  • Attention
  • Commodity

• Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Attention
  • Authority

• Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Girl
  • Natural
  • Brilliant

• The greatest gift that you could ever give to another is your own happiness, for when you are in a state of joy, happiness, or appreciation, you are fully connected to the stream of pure, positive Source Energy that is truly who you are. And when you are in that state of connection, anything or anyone that you are holding as your object of attention benefits from your attention.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Appreciation

• Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Learn
  • Imagine
  • Interest

• Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: 'Something is important here, otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want?' And then simply turn your attention to what you DO want. In the moment that you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop, and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And in that moment, your feelings will change from not feeling good to feeling good.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Important
  • Spiritual
  • Feelings

• You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Important
  • Opinion
  • Stories

• In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Character
  • Attention
  • Weather

• We must treat others as if they matter, as if they are worthy of care and attention.

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Worthy

• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Attention
  • Discipline

• There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

  

  Judy Garland
  • Attention

• Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air pollution. A few hundred years earlier it would have been demons, still the best analogy I think, but not much help when it comes to a cure.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Helping

• Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Attention
  • Draws
  • Pun

• Playing a team that's 10-1 gets your attention big-time. Our players recognize it as a major challenge. It does excite them.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Team
  • Challenge
  • Players

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