Attention Quotes

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans. There were a lot of lessons that the nation can learn from us if they just pay attention to the things that are going on down here.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false.

For me, it seems to help me take the pressure off if I don't pay attention to what other people are telling me.

I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

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.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

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.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

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.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.