Attention Quotes

• Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • People
  • Work
  • Listening

• I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Time
  • Creativity
  • Prince

• My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • Song
  • Attention

• You can't just pay attention to the short term, you just have to keep publishing.

  

  Sean Lennon
  • Attention
  • Term
  • Publishing

• I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

  

  Michael Tolkin
  • Would
  • Tables
  • Ago

• The true art of memory is the art of attention.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • True
  • Memory

• You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • Life
  • Important
  • Women

• I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Attention
  • Superman

• Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Beautiful
  • Attention

• I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Attention
  • Desire

• I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Girlfriend

• Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.

  

  Ian Gawler
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.

  John Moody
  • Attention

• I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Different
  • Focus

• I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.

  

  Shakira
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Career

• Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• A version of the old fable about the king's nakedness may be helpful here. Public choice is like the small boy who said that the king really has no clothes. Once he said this, everyone recognized that the king's nakedness had been recognized, but that no-one had really called attention to this fact.

  

  James M. Buchanan
  • May
  • Small
  • Boy

• The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

  Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Book
  • Age
  • Attention

• Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Attention

• Adherents of formal logic may be compared to a maker of porcelain dishes who would contend that he was simply paying attention to the form of his dishes, pots, and vases, but that he did not have anything to do with the raw material.

  

  Logic
  • May
  • Attention
  • Logic

• When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

  

  La'el Collins
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Choices

• There is an actor's responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don't pay attention to the lyric.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Fashion
  • Responsibility
  • Emotional

• The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.

  

  George Combe
  • Attention
  • Rest
  • Air

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