If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
~By Helen Rowland ~
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
~By Bill Griffith ~
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
~By Peter Matthiessen ~
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
~By Francis Wright ~
Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
~By Bell Hooks ~
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
~By Keith Henson ~
I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.
~By Jane Grey ~
Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.
~By Konstantin Stanislavisky ~
Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.
~By Buck Owens ~
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
~By Philip Levine ~
You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
~By Terence ~
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
~By William Booth ~
Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.
~By Mick Jagger ~
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
~By Ben Harper ~
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
~By Abraham Clark ~
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.
~By Jason Mewes ~
I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
~By John Henrik Clarke ~
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
~By George Gallup ~
Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
~By Augustine of Hippo ~
I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.
~By John Spratt ~
It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.
~By Jim Wallace ~
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
~By Dave Eggers ~
Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
~By Julie Christie ~
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
~By Richard Francis Burton ~
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.
~By Julie Christie ~
These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
~By Lewis Tappan ~
I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.
~By Charlize Theron ~
There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
~By Frank Langella ~
What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.
~By David Zucker ~
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
~By Confucius ~
When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
~By Simone Weil ~
I was always jealous of something getting more attention.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
~By Simone Weil ~
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. We do what we want to do.
~By Lamar Alexander ~
Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
~By Nanci Griffith ~
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.
~By Gong Li ~
I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.
~By Mike Farrell ~
The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
~By Adam Ferguson ~
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
~By John Portman ~
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
~By Albert Einstein ~
When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.
~By Neil Young ~
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.
~By Ninette de Valois ~
It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.
~By Julie Christie ~
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
~By Jack Osbourne ~
It is by such means as the prize offered by your Committee that the attention of the world will be focused and that men and women will be inspired to greater efforts in the interest of peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
~By Warren Rudman ~
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
~By Robert Baldwin Ross ~
I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.
~By Hugh Downs ~
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
~By George Washington Carver ~
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
~By Herbert Simon ~
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.
~By Alain de Botton ~
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.
~By Alan Shepard ~
The constant attention is what is so difficult.
~By Natalie Wood ~
My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.
~By Adam Sandler ~
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
~By Plato ~
If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
~By David Trimble ~
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
~By Richard Whately ~
People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.
~By Birch Bayh ~
Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
~By John Elway ~
A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'
~By Michael Eisner ~
Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that.
~By Albert Finney ~
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
~By Ron Lewis ~
There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
~By Greg Anderson ~
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
~By Alan Perlis ~
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
~By Mark Poster ~
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster.
~By Rene Veaux ~
We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.
~By Alexander Volkov ~
When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.
~By Allen Klein ~
I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.
~By Ron Davies ~
Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.
~By George Stephanopoulos ~
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