Quotes of: Close-attention Keyword

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

Nathalie Sarraute

Question for your life: If love existed an octave above where your vocal range ended, would you buy a dog whistle to get my attention?

$3.33

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Ugh! She cursed her lack of attention to the [mythology] reading. Who could have known that would be the important class?

The Immortal Game

Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention.

Journey to the End of the Night

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies

Return to Stantasyland

Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.

Shaping the dream

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.

The Mapmaker and the Ghost

Maybe he's not coming,' I whispered to Damar. 'He's crazy after all. Maybe something shiny caught his attention and he forgot about me.

Mortal Sentry

Her physical beauty had initially caught my attention, but it was her spirit that imprisoned my heart and soul forever. - Jonathan

Mythology: The Wicked

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

The New Gods

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

Kill You Twice

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

The Last Lion 1: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

In my opinion, too much attention to weather makes for instability of character.

The Little White Horse

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

Love

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