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When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.
Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.
When I pay attention to the little details, such as matching accessories to the entire outfit, I only get more confident on stage.
I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
Don't pay attention to what anyone is telling you about your personal journey just keep going, because that's what it's all about.
Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.
Women are brought up to think it's acceptable to pay attention to their faces. Men translate their discomfort into their behavior.
Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.
By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.
There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.
Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food.
Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.
The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good.
Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.
My friends and I sometimes laugh at each other that there is so much maintenance of a body. I paid no attention when I was younger.
When a regular guy like me starts getting attention, it's natural to want more. I wanted the next video to be bigger than the last.
It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.
Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.
It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.
You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.
I have heard that the most valuable thing in today's world, postindustrial world, is the human being's attention and how to get it.
The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.
I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.
The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.
The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.
I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.
The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.
The characteristics of people according to their star sign are similar, and we pay attention to how we can get the best out of them.
I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.
There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.
Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic.
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.
At a certain point, I should start to pay attention and make sure I'm not damaging my vocal chords, because I enjoy using them a lot.
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas