attention quotes

• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. (Andrew Carnegie) [attention/men]
• The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love. (Red Auerbach) [forget/look/attention/love]
• When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. (Edward Frederic Benson) [time/being/attention]
• If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. (Luther Burbank) [more/attention]
• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. (Andrew Carnegie) [attention/people]
• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. (Dale Carnegie) [life/attention]
• Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [art/attention/time/thing]
• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business. (Benjamin Franklin) [changes/mankind/attention/business]
• In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause. (Samuel Johnson) [time/attention]
• Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind. (Samuel Johnson) [attention/respect/give/pleasure]
• Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements. (Samuel Johnson) [perseverance/mind/attention/moment]
• Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. ( Plato) [attention/health/life]
• Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them. ( Plato) [attention/health/feeling]
• A lot of what acting is paying attention. (Robert Redford) [attention]
• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. (Jim Rohn) [give/attention]
• 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. (Herbert Simon) [/attention/wealth/]
• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. (Susan Sontag) [envy/people/attention]
• 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) [attention]
• Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. (Booker T. Washington) [life/attention/day]
• Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. (Simone Weil) [people/attention]
• My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time. (Cindy Crawford) [attention/time]
• I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did... (Salma Hayek) [more/attention/women/find]
• I'm not comfortable doing that. You shouldn't send that message out, that tight clothes are what get you the attention. If it works for them, fine. But, it's not for me. (Mandy Moore) [attention]
• I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog. (Alicia Silverstone) [think/nice/attention/life]
• I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting. (Anna Kournikova) [attention]
• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place. (Daisy Fuentes) [attention/take]
• 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) [people/life/attention]
• 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. (Albert Finney) [youth/mind/attention]
• One of the ways that I could contribute was to shill some memorabilia, and the other was to talk to you and try to get people to pay attention to this auction. (Ben Affleck) [people/attention]
• Unfortunately, when a violation is brought to our attention, state law does not provide flexibility. (Chris Cooper) [attention/state/right/provide]
• It's the worst disaster we'll ever see, ... I'm here to use whatever celebrity I have to help bring attention. (Chris Rock) [celebrity/attention]

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