#attention

What the hell do I have to do to get your attention? Do I need to get up there?” I throw an arm toward the stage. His eyes swell for just a second, in shock. He reaches forward to hold my hands, but he catches himself in time and instead folds them across his chest. “Believe me, you have my full attention. ↗

— K.A. Tucker

#k-a-tucker #kacey-cleary #kacey-trent #love #sweet

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#cause #discuss #discussion #drawn #great

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn't even know had a particular smell. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#attention

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#attention #blame #feelings #follow #i

I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You're the one who wasn't paying attention. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #peeta-mellark #attention

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart... ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#buddhism #mindfulness #attention

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#attention

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#attention

How in the world did they just jump from politics, to a ball, and now to daimon attacks? And here I’d thought I had the attention span of an ant on Red Bull. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#attention

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#nonsense #attention