Attention Quotes - page 97

The notion of being an "enlightened” person does not reduce simply to that of being a person who has highly developed cognitive abilities or disposes of a vast stock of knowledge; neither does it reduce to the idea of being a morally good or socially useful person. "Enlightenment” is not a value-free concept because it is connected with some idea of devoting persistent, focused attention to that which is genuinely important in human life, rather than to marginal or subsidiary phenomena, to drawing the "correct” conclusions from attending to these important features-whatever they are-and to embodying these conclusions concretely in one's general way of living. It involves a certain amount of sheer knowledge, an ability to concentrate and reflect, inventiveness in restructuring one's psychic, personal, and social habits; but to be enlightened is not to "have” any bit of doctrine, but to have been (re)structured in a certain way. (Raymond Geuss)
Gurnemanz is still not absolutely certain that Parsifal is pure and a fool, as he makes the decision to lead Parsifal to the castle of the Graal, for Gurnemanz sang after they both had walked a while: Now pay attention, and let me see, if you are a fool and if you are pure ...! View quote
Theodor Reuss
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. View quote
Dean Acheson
I love being the center of attention. View quote
John Mayer
Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
I have no attention span. I get bored so fast. View quote
Carrie Underwood
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. View quote
Robert Hall
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. View quote
Robert Hall
What other book besides the Bible could be heard in public assemblies from year to year, with an attention that never tires, and an interest that never cloys? View quote
Robert Hall
I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again. View quote
Ian Anderson (musician)
Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them. (Joyce Carol Oates)
It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. View quote
Edward Albee
Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud. View quote
Eddie Vedder
If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely electronic. But you have to really get my attention if you're male. I can't help it. It's part of my nature. View quote
Courtney Love
You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist. View quote
Tom Hanks
'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves. View quote
Tom Hanks
I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important. View quote
Tom Hanks
It had all looked pretty familiar. The bodies, the fear, the desperation. These things had always been here in the Overland, he supposed, but he had never really paid any attention to them until now. View quote
Suzanne Collins
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)
It's weird, how much he's noticed me. Like the attention he's paid to my hunting. And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either. The flour. The wrestling. I have kept track of the boy with the bread. View quote
Suzanne Collins
Some fellows you have to hit with a brick to get their attention. Some you have to hit with a BIG brick. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration. View quote
Cecelia Ahern
I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention. View quote
Ali MacGraw