Best attention & demand Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.”

Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth

“A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.”

I Can Happens Certain Attention Audience Talent Demand Ears Bases Charisma Conductor

Author:Isaac Stern

“The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.”

Attention Economy Conditions Demand Commodity Deep Thought Eyeballs

Author:Laura Miller

“Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.”

Way Children Helping Together Numbers Attention Wife Failing Husband Demand Faults Instance Husband And Wife Concentrating Armour Husband Wife

Author:Richard Armour

“If you run out of new ideas when you are very young, then it's a problem of talent; If you run out of new ideas when you get older, it may be that there's nothing left to say, or it may be that core ideas demand repeated attention.”

Ifs May Ideas Problem Running Young Left Attention Talent Demand Core New Ideas

Author:David Toop

“I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is suggesting that the more that you demand people's external attention, the less chance you are allowing them to dip into the default mode where daydreams and reflection happen - and lot of great ideas are not going to come from the brute force of work but from personal life experience. Mind-wandering seems to be essential to the creative process, and I don't think a lot of businesses are aware of that fact.”

“The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me.”

Differences Attention Responsibility Demand Ambition Tasks Claims Chiefs Plenty Multitudes Daily Tasks

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.”

Inspirational Humans Values Attention Moral Roles Calling Demand Elements Approach Technique Practicals Engaged Restoration Human Values Technicians

Author:Christopher Lasch

“In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.”

Thinking Knows Shows Pay Attention Happened Demand Intelligent Entertainment Pay Attention Viewers

Author:Victor Garber

“North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.'”

World Whole Pay Attention Willing Honor Please Demand Whole World Pay Attention Length Korea North Korea

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.”

Body Pay Attention Our Lives Demand Pay Attention

Book:The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology

Source: The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology

“Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.”

Self Care Individual Attention Demand Formation

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”

“Partisans present some of the most refreshing music I've heard in a long while, uncompromising, very well written and very well played. It demands serious attention. I hear in these players a sense of common purpose and resolve, and a strong command of a dialect uniquely suited to this music. It's heartening to hear music that looks to find its own particular place.”

Wells Looks Long Purpose Strong Common Attention Player Written Heard Particular Serious Demand Command Resolve Partisans Refreshing Dialect Well Written Uncompromising Common Purpose

Author:Steve Swallow

“Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thinking that any attention is better than none. Since many girls as well as boys buy the idea that sexual aggression and exploitation is normal masculine behavior, it may not even occur to them to demand to be treated as equals.”

Thinking Needs Wells May Ideas Girl Social Attention Boys Acceptance Demand Behavior Normal Treated Approval Aggression Exploitation Masculine Harassment

Author:Leora Tanenbaum

“I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man.”

Men Games Attention Watches Tvs Demand Basketball Thrones Mystical Attention Span Playoffs Tyrion Lannisters

Author:Steve Harvey

“The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.”

Ifs Doe Political Religious Attention Demand Islam Symbols Secular Attire Secular Society

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.”

People Character Pay Attention Opinion Struggle Demand Pay Attention Fascinated Justification

Author:Martin Walser

“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.”

Men May Facts Able Faces Used Courses Lost Loss Attention Century Demand Intellectual Capacity Machines Innocence Denial Capability Nineteenth Century

Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

“Photographs need to demand the viewer's attention, often implicitly, posing questions as to the nature of what is being depicted. Photographs are not there to show us the world, but to show us a version of what may be happening.”

World Needs May Shows Attention Demand Happenings Photograph Versions Viewers Posing

Author:Fred Ritchin

“I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.”

“I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!”

Attention Demand

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I don't want to speak for all people who don't have children, but maybe there's a discomfort with kids and the amount of attention they demand, by just being the age that they are.”

People Want Children Kids Age Speak Attention Amount Demand Just Being Discomfort

Author:Shannyn Sossamon

“A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.”

People Way Writing Said Problem Inspiration Attention Creative Special Conditions Poet Demand Madness Concentration Vocation Creative Writing

Author:Stephen Spender

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