Attention Quotes

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Leonardo da Vinci

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Dale Carnegie

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Lou Holtz

Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration, Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper: you are the most special person in my life.

Charles Stanley

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience

Joseph Addison

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists

Heywood Hale Broun

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Susan Sontag

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Eknath Easwaran

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

David Ogilvy

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking, and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Epictetus

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention

Christopher Morley

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating

Luciano Pavarotti

The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished

Elbert Hubbard