Attention Quotes - page 6

It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows. (Antoni Tàpies)
At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention. View quote
Simon Cowell
Jesus, when he was on Earth, he was out there helping people, right? Why did he perform those miracles? To call attention to his profession. Why do you think I do these incredible feats? To call attention to my profession! View quote
Jack LaLanne
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.... this position of seeing them [the objects] without looking at them too much, without focusing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice. View quote
Donald Knuth
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. View quote
W. H. Auden
When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out." View quote
Cato the Elder
We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is. (John Cage)
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. View quote
Herbert Simon
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't. View quote
Harper Lee
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
A lot of what acting is, is paying attention. View quote
Nancy Reagan
I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't. View quote
Sienna Miller
The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton. (Al Gore)
Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die. View quote
Steve Jobs
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. View quote
David Ogilvy
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. View quote
Robert Fripp
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. View quote
William Jennings Bryan