“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“Things in life are not always as they seem. When you listen, for instance, to someone talking, there is another voice beneath his words..even if you hear clearly what he is saying, the real truth is much deeper.”— Johnny Depp, wnq-movies.com
“You didn’t think about it because you never lost it. If you never thought about it you couldn’t lose it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, amazon.com
“I would rather be on the Internet engaging with half-imaginary people in a fake way than in real life engaging with real people in a real way.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I am a puppy for attention from imaginary people. I am lonely among real human beings and would rather be on my phone than engage with reality.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, amazon.com
“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”— José Ortega y Gasset, goodreads.com
“For example, a lot of people say that because of the internet and how we absorb media now, our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. How much time we spent on the internet, typing or texting have made our communication with each other less and less.”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“You didn’t need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“The easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place someone is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will result in sudden death.”— Harry Houdini, articles.latimes.com
“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.”— Amy Adams, chron.com
“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.”— Thom Yorke, citizeninsane.eu
“The whole problem is that OCD makes you incapable of controlling your attention. While nobody has power over what thoughts pop up in their heads, they usually do have autonomy over whether or not they focus on them. This is not the case with OCD.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“We celebrate the Kate Middletons and the Amal Clooney’s for being chosen, or, in the active voice, for landing, an accomplished man. Amal Clooney is a spectacularly accomplished woman in her own right, but how many other esteemed human rights lawyers can you name? Had you heard of Amal Almuddin befo…”— Dana Schwartz, observer.com