Attention Quotes
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
Marilyn vos Savant
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Red Auerbach
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone Weil
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
Mariah Carey
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Edward de Bono
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
Edward de Bono
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
Meryl Streep
You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.
Dane Cook
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller
I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
