Attention Quotes

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein

Girl, Giving, Pretty

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Pain, Human, May

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Dalai Lama

Education, Brain, Granted

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Men, Older, Less

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

Long, Happen, Since

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody

Fire, Light, Tell

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
Paulo Coelho

Different, Become, Matter

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Ronald Reagan

Food, Medical, Long

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Robert G. Allen

Crazy, Understand, Dream

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

Book, Books, Rule

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
Lee Iacocca

Love, Family, Yourself

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

Nothing, Jealous, Give

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Marilyn Monroe

School, Remember, Friends

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Jim Rohn

Give, Whatever, Gift

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
Eminem

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

End, Pretty, Serious

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Plato

Life, Health, Greatest

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
Steve Jobs

Money, Happened, Valuable

Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
Frank Sinatra

Respect, Career, Done

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra

Love, Beauty, Leadership

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver

Life, Common, Command

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol

Write, Pay, Measure

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.
Mitt Romney

Lost, May, Wish

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller

Moment, Awesome, Close

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Keep, Talk

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Judy Garland

Life, Times, Tried

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
Kenny Guinn

Best, Children, Service

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Good, Someone, Effort

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
Aldous Huxley

Love, Done, Learn

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil

Life, Good, Best

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