Something’s going to happen that’s going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft,...

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

…a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

Attention is the limited resource on the internet – not disk capacity, processor speed or bandwidth.

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

Truly? That whole determined, dangerous saunter across the room was for me? In that case, would you mind going back and doing it all over again? Slowly this time, and with feeling.

Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota’s eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is “absorption,” which describes a particular style of focusing....

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.”[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes...

We’re so used to just glancing at the environment through the eyes of the past that we’re frequently not certain if we are in fact paying attention or if we merely think that we’re paying...

To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful;...

I wanted to observe how a genuine people person, who happens to also be a salesman, handles himself in the presence of a stranger. And few people are stranger than me, so I was paying...

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

pain is like the cold. do not give it your attention. but unlike the cold do not deny being in pain

Michael Jackson was the biggest star the world has ever seen – he put so much into everything; a lot of attention to detail. I want to do that. I want to pay that kind...

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people’s attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter...

Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?

Attention is a main asset in marketing.

He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Sometimes pain is God’s megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you’re always at attention… that antenna is always out there.

I don’t go out, so I don’t get attention from girls. They’re not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

When I work, I work very hard. When I don’t work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.

Rather than a vanity paycheck it feels better to give something of far more value than entertainment or money. Sometimes gifts can be priceless like that of love which is everything, connection, inspiration, devotion, attention,...

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

There are so many attention whores out there, prostituting for people’s acknowledgment

A complex world of intrigues and power play among couples hascombined to deny young people the love and attention they trulydeserve, more and more teenagers are leaving home to peer up withbad influence which eventually...

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good.

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for...

Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the...

Sometimes, the common reason for fights in a strong relationship is only the lack of having attention from the loving one

I mean, I haven’t been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn’t pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

We can learn to pay attention, concentrate, devote ourselves to authors. We can slow down so we can hear the voice of texts, feel the movement of sentences, experience the pleasure of words–and own passages...

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.

The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was...

Shift your attention, and your emotion shifts. Shift your emotion, and your attention shifts.

People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by...

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don’t make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

We’re like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water – we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter...

I wonder at times if we’re not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not admired, and performances unattended. So much attention painstakingly sought and not given.

Research shows that when they confront a potentially unpleasant situation, such as some unfriendly faces at a gathering, these extraverts are apt to shift their attention rapidly around the room and zero in on amiable...