Attention Quotes - Page 14

• Nowadays a lot of what was wrong with me would no doubt be ascribed to Attention Deficit Disorder, tartrazine food colouring, dairy produce and air pollution. A few hundred years earlier it would have been demons, still the best analogy I think, but not much help when it comes to a cure.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Air, Years

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.291, Soho Press

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• If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

  John Ortberg

  Godly, People, Want

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

  John Ortberg

  People, Pay, Way

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.

  Hugh Nibley

  Responsibility, Men, Views

  Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (1994). “Brother Brigham challenges the Saints”, Deseret Book Co

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• He lifted his brows. "If I really thought it was the absolute best thing for our kids, you'd have had a battle on your hands. That was just a debate." "With chair-throwing." "Heated debate. Fights involve chair-breaking. Chair-throwing is just getting your attention.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Kids, Fighting, Hands

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• You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

  Barry Lyga

  Cutting, Hands, Tv Shows

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• And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.’ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.

  Oliver Sacks

  Memories, Men, Profound

  Oliver Sacks (1998). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?” I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. “When we fall that first time, we’re not really in love with the girl. We’re in love with being in love. We’ve got no idea what she’s really about—or what she’s capable of. We’re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We’re idiots.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Fall, First Love

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Selfish, Constant Love, Retarded

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• Is it like a Harry Potter thing?" He turned his head then. "A what?" "A Harry Potter thing," she said again. "You know, don't say Voldemort's name because you might attract his attention?" He considered it. "You mean the children's book." "I have got to get you to watch more movies," she said. "You'd enjoy these. Yes, I mean the children's book.

  Patricia Briggs

  Children, Book, Mean

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• She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Mind, Titles

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• Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.

  Alice Hoffman

  Prayer, Heart, Warrior

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Buttercup, miserable even with Prim’s constant attention, huddles in the cube and exhales cat breath in my face.

  Suzanne Collins

  Cat, Cubes, Faces

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1176, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

  Gabrielle Zevin

  People, Scare, Whispering

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Focus, Maps, Too Much

  Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

  Richard Carlson

  People, Needs, Quiet

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

  John Green

  Real, Hero, Vaccines

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

  Linda Hogan

  Patience, Nature, Garden

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• Finn, do you see the lias—whatever, the orange-haired girl?” Razo Gestured ahead. “Do you think she’s pretty?” Finn glanced Dasha’s way, then returned his attention ot his horse. “She’s all right.” “Really? Just all right?” Finn shrugged. Razo rolled his eyes. “What am I saying? He doesn’t think any girl is pretty but Enna.” “Are there any girls but Enna?” Finn called back. “There’d better be.

  Shannon Hale

  Girl, Horse, Eye

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• I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

  Barbara Delinsky

  Lasts, Competing, I Can

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• You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

  Jeannette Walls

  College, People, Degrees

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

  Jojo Moyes

  Two, Focus, Nerves

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• I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

  Nora Roberts

  Men, Trying, Bash

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• I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• she’s not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her is like waking up.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Strong, Eye

  Veronica Roth (2012). “Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene”, p.6, Harper Collins

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