432 quotes found
“People will stop trying to prove their something special when they finally realized their already unique in God's creation.”
“The often-used phrase pay attention is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.”
“When you guarantee increase, you create attention for yourself”
“From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lad...”
“Is it possible that the national psychology emphasizing bigness has caused us to think only in those terms to the detriment of the small things that have to be done if we are to win the war?”
“According to the prevailing notion, freedom manifests as preference-satisfying behavior. About the preferences themselves we are to maintain a principled silence, out of deference to the autonomy o...”
“He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.”
“Her romances often seemed like dalliances; she enjoyed male company and blossomed in its presence, but she did not appear to care deeply about any of the men [Steiner]”
“In your travels, do not draw your attention to those stones in the dirt that cause your feet to ache. But rather draw your attention to the loveliness of all that does surround you. Marvel at the b...”
“He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn.”
“However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.”
“Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?”
“God is the one who puts dreams inside you. So you'd better chase them fast, before He decides to let them chase you instead....Because sometimes He does that, just to get your attention.”
“Sometimes pain is Gods megaphone, his only way to get our attention.”
“Time is our most precious currency. So its significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and e...”
“All that mattered was him looking at me”
“Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.”
“Ender began to eat, slowly and carefully, pretending not to notice he was the center of attention.”
“All eyes turned to look at us' would be a slipshod way of putting it; eyes don't turn anyway, heads do, but as our little group joined the fringe of the assembly, there was a discernible swivelling...”
“Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention.""Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?”
