The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason...

Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo...

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I’ve become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don’t pay a lot of attention...

I had a dream about you. You were talking on the phone like it was a banana, and my body was cramping up due to low potassium levels. I tried waving at you to get...

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something...

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

Believe me, you have my full attention.

I begin to feel this tension when things that doesn’t worth attention are the things that attracts attention

Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you’re paying so much attention to the new thing.

People who are diagnosed as having “generalized anxiety disorder” are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural...

Worship and spiritual hunger make you so attractive to God that your circumstances cease to matter anymore. He will move heaven and earth to find a worshiper. When you begin to worship with all your...

I don’t pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer’s hand.

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that’s the cardinal sin.

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be,Your attraction to me must in some way lack,Such a pity to spend time on thee.

I honestly didn’t expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

What’s great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn’t have to be for anybody other than yourself.

There’s no such thing as unwanted attention for an actor.

An obsessive attention to the news, I’ve realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn’t doesn’t captivate my attention very much.

If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe’s talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience–if I had done only this job, I believe I’d have established myself as a force...

Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks—to be noticed.

this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: “Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.

While learning others, respect demands that one never takes issue with another’s freedom to choose their ‘get down’ – their way of living… and don’t be mad. But carefully listen, observe, and compare mental notes...

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

(It’s) a fair exchange. You’re giving me attention. That’s a form of affection, you know.

I pay such close attention of the record making process that most people would assume are very little and wouldn’t be that big of a deal; the packaging, the title, and the harmonies, I think,...

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

I’m thankful I don’t have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They’ve always been there for me.

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

It’s definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I’m not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 – but it’s part of the deal. You’re the leader on the set.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

Emily Greenstreet was one of these girls that nobody ever notices, who are only friends with other girls nobody notices. Nobody likes or dislikes them. They have weak chins, or chicken-pox scars, or their glasses...

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Brands frantically tried to compete for users’ fragmented attention, spraying content on every platform in a 24/7 race to stay relevant.

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.

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?

You can’t be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life’s masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to...

Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, but she did not appear to care deeply about any of the men [Steiner]

Never crave to be known for someone you are not. Be who you are in the day and when the lights are off, remain true!

We become neighbors when we are willing to cross the road for one another. (…) There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have...

People always lean toward who’s the best guitar player, who’s the best singer? I don’t see it that way. They’re all the best, you know? They’ve all gotten your attention, you’ve admired them, you’ve tried...

There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.