432 quotes found
“...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...”
“Im not a follower. I never have been. But Ill definitely become someone Im not for a few hours if itll make me blend in rather than make me a blatant eye sore and draw attention.”
“Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”
“To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.”
“Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.”
“Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time, or didnt take it, at pleasure. And,similarly, things themselves possessed no fixed and intrins...”
“Cabel gives her a quizzical look. "I am totally not getting enough attention here.”
“People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. T...”
“The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.”
“I cook to inspire my husband to pay attention to me.”
“All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.”
“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”
“The breath of the mind is attention 128”
“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.”
“Mind your attention! Dont just give it to any action and reaction at all!”
“Draw the attention of those who do things out of spite, to something else, away from what you wish to avoid.”
“That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are”
“Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.”
“It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase ''homo distractus,'' a species of ever shorter atte...”
“We've already seen the attention merchant's basic modus operandi: draw attention with apparently free stuff and then resell it. but a consequence of that model is a total dependence on gaining and ...”
