Quotes about Attention

Far and above the most revealing aspect of anyone's character is how one handles people. How is Jesus with people? He welcomes intrusion. He stops what he's doing and gives undivided attention. He's such an immensely gracious person.

Americans consume something like 10 hours of media a day,3over 100,000 words and 34 gigabytes—which would crash a laptop in a week.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

This vertical history feels more intimate and sensory than written history. It's been reaching out all along, I just wasn't paying attention.

Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention.

The great man, the wise man does small things greatly regarding nothing as "trivial" that is necessary. The weak man, the foolish man, does small things carelessly, and meanly, hankering the while after, some greater work for which, in his neglect and inability in small matters, he is ceaselessly advertising his incapacity.

The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

you can change your desires by changing what you give attention to.