Attention Quotes

All night my heart makes its wayhowever it can over the rough groundof uncertainties, but only until nightmeets and then is overwhelmed bymorning, the light deepening, thewind easing and just waiting, as Itoo wait (and when have I ever beendisappointed?) for redbird to sing

~ Mary Oliver

Cabel gives her a quizzical look. I am totally not getting enough attention here.

~ Lisa Mcmann

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

~ Chip Heath

I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.

~ Sonia Rumzi

All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.

~ Kimberly Giles

The breath of the mind is attention 128

~ Joseph Joubert

Dickens writes that one of his characters, listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

~ Charles Dickens

Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They're emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention. Because of this they use a multitude of games, in order to receive adoration. Sadly, they are the most ungodly of God's creations because they don't show remorse for their actions, take steps to make amends or have empathy for others. They are morally bankrupt.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Life offers the ability to pursue what catches your attention.

~ Steven Redhead

God is constantly talking to us but we can't hear him because we pay too much attention to the noise from the world. Genesis 12:22.

~ Felix Wantang

Draw the attention of those who do things out of spite, to something else, away from what you wish to avoid.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in single file, with your hands behind your heads! Leave all weapons behind. Comply and your lives will be spared!

~ Christina Engela

That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are

~ Sarah Dessen

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

~ Charles Darwin

It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.

~ Tim Wu

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

~ Mark Strand

We've already seen the attention merchant's basic modus operandi: draw attention with apparently free stuff and then resell it. but a consequence of that model is a total dependence on gaining and holding attention. This means that under competition, the race will naturally run to the bottom; attention will almost invariably gravitate to the more garish, lurid, outrageous alternative, whatever stimulus may more likely engage what cognitive scientists call our ''automatic'' attention as opposed to our ''controlled'' attention, the kind we direct with intent. The race to a bottomless bottom, appealing to what one might call the audience's baser instincts, poses a fundamental, continual dilemma for the attention merchant-just how far will he go to get his harvest? If the history of attention capture teaches us anything, it is that the limits are often theoretical, and when real, rarely self-imposed.

~ Tim Wu

Oh, fucking expression, attention and impression!(Dexter)

~ Deyth Banger

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of what's enormously important.

~ Craig Groeschel

It is no different from the way it is on Earth, if one is paying attention. If only people would pay closer attention, to everything. Then they would know what mattered without stumbling blindly (albeit at times willingly) in the wrong direction. Man may be born to trouble, be he doesn't have to stay there.

~ Lorna Jane Cook

When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignore you... they don't talk a lot of with you.....

~ Deyth Banger

Before being born, his mother explained, babies go to school. Not a school like Boris’s, but a different kind of school, where all the teachers are angels. The angels teach each baby the entire Torah, along with all of the secrets of the universe. Then, just before each baby is born, an angel puts its finger right below the baby’s nose—here she paused to put her finger across his lips (could he see the blood under her skin, or did he only imagine it?)—and whispers to the child: Shh—don’t tell. And then the baby forgets. “Why does he have to forget?” Boris had asked, moving his lips beneath her finger. He didn’t want to know, not really. But his mother’s back had stiffened, and he could feel that she might get up at any moment, put out the light, walk away, disappear. She pulled her hand away from his face, resting it on her own stomach. “So that for the rest of his life,” she said, “he will always have to pay attention to the world, and to everything that happens in it, to try to remember all the things he’s forgotten.

~ Dara Horn

Loyalty is what you focus on and won't give up.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Everyone's always making fun of him and calling him crazy behind his back, but I can kind of understand how someone would end up that way. I mean, if no one ever pays attention to you telling the truth, then it probably makes sense to try lying for a change.

~ Amy Reed

Looking back on it all, I believe when we were on the streets coming up, we were simply looking for somebody to look our way. Even though guys were getting killed, the gang continued to grow. I heard some older folks say one time, ‘As soon as two or three of them get killed, this gang will go to the dogs.’ Each time one of us got killed, it hurt, but, that made us stronger. Anthony ‘Ada’ Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders

~ Drexel Deal

The gift of your time and attention is love in action.

~ Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

What is the greatest need of human beings? What is it they seek from me always? Intimacy. I listen with all my being, I am completely interested. I seek momentarily a full communion of eyes, feelings, thoughts.

~ Anaïs Nin

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

~ George Alec Effinger

Fear is not to be overcome, or dreaded, or avoided, or expelled from our life; neither is it to be our dwelling, obsession or constant companion. But it should be respected, recognized, and humbly listened to for its singular solemn advice. Indeed, it's wise and cautionary warnings should always be heeded. Fear was designed to function as a familiar adviser, an overly critical, cautious, conservative friend - not our foe. When it is accepted, and appreciated for what it is, fear is a sage, a warning system, and one of our oldest, most experienced guides. When it holds itself at bay as necessary, it is like the security detail that waits at some serious attention in the back of the room, ever watchful, ever ready, benign, non-threatening - until circumstances require its sensitive, timely services.

~ Connie Kerbs

God’s love is God’s attention.

~ Pat Schneider

Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.

~ Steven Redhead

I should leave, she told herself once or twice, to savor the thought of their surprise, their regret. What a childish idea. Then Jack would leave, no doubt, so that should would come back, as she would have to do, and her father would be plunged in sorrow of which she was directly the cause, and which would not end in this life.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Even those who know better, such as the King, nurse strange ideas about me as a prophet. They do not understand that I am given to see only those matters that roil the heavens. They expect me to know everything.

~ Geraldine Brooks

We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping.

~ Sunday Adelaja

You must however pay attention to the fact that we don’t only lose time to lateness. We also lose time to jokes, gossip, empty talks, sleep on duty, social media etc.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.

~ Merrill Markoe

There's always more than what meets the eye. If you dig in deep enough and pay attention, you can really see the beauty in a person.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold his gaze.

~ Jessica Khoury

To all the readers,whom despitethe attraction of tv,of internet,of family troubles,of video games,of sport,of night clubs,have found some hoursso we can all dream together.

~ Bernard Werber