Quotes of: Pay-attention Keyword

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

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

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

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

Peeps

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

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

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

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

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

Richard Hooker

My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.

Sylvia Earle

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

Sophie Hannah

During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.

Stephen Kinzer