Attention Quotes

The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.

~ Elizabeth Thornton

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.

~ W. Daniel Hillis

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

~ José Ortega Y Gasset

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.

~ Matt Damon

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

~ Kylie Minogue

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

~ Marilyn Hacker

My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.

~ Tom Holland

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

~ Simone Weil

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

~ Andrew Carnegie

The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

~ Gareth Gates

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

~ Ethel Percy Andrus

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

~ Camille Paglia

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

~ David Ogilvy

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

~ Quavo

The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

~ Edmund Morgan

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

~ Callie Thorne

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

~ Barbara Olson

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

~ Saint Ignatius

I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.

~ Cierra Ramirez

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

~ Bernard Beckett

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

~ Michael Pollan

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

~ Octavia Butler

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

~ Shawn Johnson

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

~ Plato

If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

~ Noam Chomsky

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

~ William Bartram

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

~ Regina Brett

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative.

~ Guy Fieri

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

~ Bill Gates

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

~ Charles Stanley

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

~ William Gibson

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

~ Anne Lamott

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'

~ Steven Wright

I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.

~ W. Bruce Cameron

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

~ Steven Pinker

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

~ Samuel Johnson

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

~ Billie Jean King