Dickens writes that one of his characters, “listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity...

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think...

I’m transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other...

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Now, all writing – all the arts – are a form of ‘Pay attention to me,’ but there’s also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse...

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don’t have to pay any attention it to at all....

The state of our state needs serious attention.

Is it possible that the national psychology emphasizing bigness has caused us to think only in those terms – to the detriment of the small things that have to be done if we are to...

Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a diary of what you do all day and how you feel...

Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.

When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made my hands tingle and my thoughts switch to a different hemisphere, right brain...

Shows like ‘Top Chef,’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn’t get out of hand.

You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability

I don’t pay much attention to sports.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to...

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Walk slowly through the world and pay attention

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

Was Du in Dir nährst, das wächst.

Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.

In a variation on James’s recipe for interesting experience–the familiar leavened by the novel–Hobbs’s “art of choosing difficulties” requires selecting projects that are “just manageable.” If an activity is too easy, you lose focus and...

I’ll date you, love…not you and your iPad. I can’t feel plastic palm play; I’m live like Memorex.

When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result.

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do not attend to the things said to them, because they are...

We as Democrats have not been very interested in poverty or issues relating to the inner city as much as we should have. Think about the last presidential campaign: It’s pretty hard to focus a...

It’s not at all hard to understand a person; it’s only hard to listen without bias.

Craving for power, titles and promotion to high places is not a tool for carving impacts in the heart the world. High positions polluted by bad character are the poisons that dehydrate the world of...

Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular attendance, attention and action.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

All that mattered was him looking at me

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of...

It’s easy to get lost in our own heads. It’s easy to allow the thoughts and worries and plans and hopes to take on their own lives and control our minds in such a way...

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

I’ve always tried to work hard. I’m not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

Cyber bullying occurs online daily. Most don’t consider their actions or words to be bullying. Here’s a few clues that you’re a cyber bully.(1) You post information about someone in order to ruin their character.(2)...

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody’s attention will turn elsewhere.

Mistakes Are Life’s Lectures You Didn’t Plan To Attend But Situations Or People Made You Attend Them….Pay Attention And Learn From Them

The finger I dipped in the jar was not the finger I licked.

I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don’t mind.

I don’t have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and...

I love attention.

These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000...

If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. “Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you’re really concentrating, because...