#attention

Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you. ↗

— Patti Digh

#diversity #pay-attention #life

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#because #country #effect #i #importance

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#attracted #changes #during #planets #sky

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth. ↗

— Lactantius

#authority #because #believed #come #fiction

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

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

#always #attention #brain #development #education

I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#attention #countless #enjoy #flattered #hundreds

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#attention spans #audience #because #being #clearly

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. ↗

— Michael LeBoeuf

#any #attention #automatically #concentration #down