Quotes on Attention

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

We will not go to Heaven,Goetz, and even if we both entered it, we would not have eyes to see each other, nor hands to touch each other. Up there, God gets all the attention.... We can only love on this earth and against God.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; _x000D_ _x000D_ no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.