Quotes of: Attention-spans Keyword

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

Nicholas Haslam

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Thornton Wilder

Love Is Like A Plant.We Give It Attention,It Grows. We Ignore It,It Dies

Love

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

William Hamilton Maxwell

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

Jordana Spiro

Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it’s not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need my help.” “That’s true,” I said. “Maybe I can put a sign out front that says, ‘ATTENTION ALL GIRLS: FREE ...

Bloodlines

I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it...And the r...

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to them... Being steady with mindfulness as an anchor for all the changes we go through is the way we practice forbearance. And you can e...

Sailing Home: Using Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls

Clever deceivers rarely tell outright falsehoods. It’s too risky. The art of deception is closely related to the magician’s craft: it involves knowing how to draw attention to a harmless place, to deflect it away from the action. Deeply entrenche...

The Philosophy of Deception

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any f...

Frederick Buechner

I have learned that we may change the very nature of our thoughts, by changing the tone of voice we are thinking in! No one has ever paid attention to what tone of voice they are speaking in, during the time that their words are going on in their hea...

C. JoyBell C.

Ham Porter: Hey, Smalls, you wanna s'more? Smalls: Some more of what? Ham Porter: No, do you wanna s'more? Smalls: I haven't had anything yet, so how can I have some more of nothing? Ham Porter: You're killing me Smalls! These are s'more's stuff! Ok,...

The Sandlot

Observing is not just seeing. It is watching with attention.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

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

Damned

You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.

Chick Corea

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

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

Jose Bergamin

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

James Taylor

Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.

A Poker Game of Love

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

Julie Christie