While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

Of course the barbarians’ aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

Boys seek attention, men demand respect.

That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.

What I’m very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts....

I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I’ll get a little bit more attention.

I just really don’t like being the center of attention that much. It’s kind of ironic.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people’s attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don’t bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you want to ensure their safety in your life. The bird knows where it...

Time is our most precious currency. So it’s significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the...

Your motivations–get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office–aren’t impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on. An individual’s goals figure prominently in the theories of personality...

There wasn’t a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.

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]

Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they’ve got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don’t have to pay attention to what’s going on in...

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)

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.

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.

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...

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...