Quotes about Attention

How was one to lasso her mind, and tether it to this minute, unimportant spot?

There was a spectator in me who, even while I squirmed and obeyed, remained observant, note taking for some future revision.

To begin with, I ran my eye up and down the page. I am going to get the hang of her sentences first, I said, before I load my memory with blue eyes and brown and the relationship that there may be between Chloe and Roger. There will be time for that when I have decided whether she has a pen in her hand or a pickaxe.

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...

Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to those that are giving you trouble.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.

Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the DOCTRINE ITSELF, not the MAN. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected with any Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle.

If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.

Many Christians are like sieves. Put a sieve into the water, and it is full; but take it out of the water, and it all runs out. So, while they are hearing the sermon, they remember something of value. But, like the sieve, as soon as they have left the church, all is forgotten.

In truth, Jesus did not, in his own time, attract much notice.