#attention

Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#advanced #attention #because #definitely #lose

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#become #developed #developing #give #i

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#attention span #cell #cell phones #i #i think

I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#believe #body #combat #demands #deploying

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#away #concentration #detail #engaging #find

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#attention #comes #conversation #cuts #dinner

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#been #better #craved #did #emotion

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#faith #family #hard #hard work #important

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. ↗

— Simone Weil

#humility #intellectual #less #more #nor

They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models. ↗

— Bob Weir

#attention #industry #models #new #protecting