Quotes by category:Attention

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.

Angelique Kidjo

challenges attention people

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

Angelus Silesius

doe rose attention

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Anita Brookner

innocence writing attention

The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.

Anita Sarkeesian

creating attention meaningful

If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.

Ann M. Martin

editors writing attention

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

Ann Patchett

attention people needs

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

Ann Voskamp

moments weight attention

Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

Ann Voskamp

moments missing attention

Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?

Anna Deavere Smith

artist attention looks

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

Anna Kournikova

hard attention sports

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Anna Seward

acquisition language attention

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

Anne Lamott

ponds expectations attention

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

Anne Lamott

pay-attention pay attention

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

Anne Lamott

print dresses attention

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

Anne Lamott

pay-attention ecstasy attention

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

vanity desire attention

My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."

Anne Sweeney

song pay attention

I still remember the five points of salesmanship: attention, interest, conviction, desire and close.

Annette Bening

desire remember attention

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

Annette Bening

media actors attention

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

Annie Lennox

attention-seeking seeking attention