Attention Quotes - page 4

Reflexion is careful and laborious thought, and watchful attention directed to the agreeable effect of one's plan. Invention, on the other hand, is the solving of intricate problems and the discovery of new principles by means of brilliancy and versatility. (Vitruvius)
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.... View quote
John Cassian
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. View quote
Manuel Puig
But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span. View quote
Charles Portis
I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors. View quote
Bernie Siegel
I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. View quote
Diane Lane
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them. View quote
Charles Schwab
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. View quote
James Cook
Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up. View quote
Ashley Scott
People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world. View quote
Birch Bayh
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. View quote
Barbara Amiel
Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love. View quote
Bernadette Peters
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention. View quote
Douglas Horton
Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true. (Payne Stewart)
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options. View quote
Thomas Menino
Well, his attention span was not long, shall we say. View quote
Lauren Bacall
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty. View quote
Indira Gandhi
A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition. View quote
John Adams