Attention Quotes

Our attention should be concentrated on God, instead of on what we wear.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Bless you with the curse to remain busy always.

~ Amit Abraham

People will stop trying to prove their something special when they finally realized their already unique in God's creation.

~ Ron Baratono

The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

~ Daniel Kahneman

When you guarantee increase, you create attention for yourself

~ Sunday Adelaja

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady on the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.

~ Frederick Buechner

Is it possible that the national psychology emphasizing bigness has caused us to think only in those terms – to the detriment of the small things that have to be done if we are to win the war?

~ Molly Guptill Manning

According to the prevailing notion, freedom manifests as “preference-satisfying behavior.” About the preferences themselves we are to maintain a principled silence, out of deference to the autonomy of the individual. They are said to express the authentic core of the self, and are for that reason unavailable for rational scrutiny. But this logic would seem to break down when our preferences are the object of massive social engineering, conducted not by government “nudgers” but by those who want to monetize our attention.

~ Matthew B. Crawford

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.

~ Tom Clancy

Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, but she did not appear to care deeply about any of the men [Steiner]

~ Elizabeth Winder

In your travels, do not draw your attention to those stones in the dirt that cause your feet to ache. But rather draw your attention to the loveliness of all that does surround you. Marvel at the blades of grass that seem to turn silk under the loom of golden leaves that share with you the sun’s warmth and ponder the impression of that morning fog whose kiss good morning gently asks Mother Nature to arise so that her spirit can bask in the beauty of her own imagination as she gazes into the distance, not in fear, but in awe of that beauty which will cause the imagination to create all endless possibilities that the spirit knows to already exist. Remember that your spirit is not a device that heeds to walls and streets that tell you where to go. Your spirit is your attention drawn to that beauty in the distance that only you can look to. Your spirit is connected to your environment by the imagination and the travel that you possess. Walk with your spirit in front of you and you will become part of that beauty in the distance that causes you to marvel with gladness. You will always be beautiful because this is who you are.

~ Luccini Shurod

He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn.

~ Rainbow Rowell

However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.

~ Daniel Kahneman

Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?

~ Karen Maezen Miller

God is the one who puts dreams inside you. So you'd better chase them fast, before He decides to let them chase you instead....Because sometimes He does that, just to get your attention.

~ Amy Matayo

Sometimes pain is God’s megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

~ Robert Hellenga

Time is our most precious currency. So it’s significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Not everyone who stares likes us, we may look weird enough to get everyone’s attention.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

All that mattered was him looking at me

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

(It’s) a fair exchange. You’re giving me attention. That’s a form of affection, you know.

~ Arthur Gordon

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.

~ Orson Scott Card

Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention.Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

~ Pseudonymous Bosch

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

~ Herbert A. Simon

I’m not a follower. I never have been. But I’ll definitely become someone I’m not for a few hours if it’ll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.

~ J.a. Redmerski

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

~ Idries Shah

To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

~ Brad Meltzer

Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time, or didn’t take it, at pleasure. And,similarly, things themselves possessed no fixed and intrinsic amount of interest; instead things were interesting as long as you had attention to give them. How long does it take to draw a baseball mitt? As much time as you care to give it. Not an infinite amount of time, but more time than you first imagined. For many days, so long as you want to keep drawing that mitt, and studying that mitt, there will always be a new and finer layer of distinctions to draw out and lay in. Your attention discovers—seems thereby to produce—an array of interesting features in any object, like a lamp.

~ Annie Dillard

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

~ John Mccarthy

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

~ Pink

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

~ Frank Sinatra

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

~ Edward De Bono

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.

~ Jerry Della Femina

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

~ Edward De Bono

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

~ Allen Klein

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

~ Indira Gandhi

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

~ Alison Gopnik

I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable.

~ Julianne Moore