Quotes of: Attention-spans Keyword

For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday

Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

If you're a nobody, just imagine a lot of celebrities are in love with you. Narcissism is the best cure for attention deficit disorder.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.

Trust: Betrayed

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

Outside In

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

Parables of the Kingdom

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

Proust

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

The Prince of Tides

To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

Put That in Writing

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

Under the Skin

Humans don’t make sense.” “If you’re only now learning that,” Kaladin said, “then you haven’t been paying attention.

Words of Radiance

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

Alice Oswald

A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.

Donna Mills

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

Tom Cruise

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

City of Bones

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

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Sometimes people are so genuinely themselves they aren't conscious of the fact they have wronged you; sometimes you shouldn't care enough to bring it to their attention.

J'son M. Lee

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Henry Miller

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

Nicki Minaj

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

Patrick Murphy

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson