#Attention

"Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all."

"We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success."

"Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."

"A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]"

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."

"When you experience a negative circumstance or event, do not dwell on it. Be proactive — put your attention on what you need to do to bring the situation to a positive result."

"It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor."

"Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted."

"There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

"A long list of propositions does not necessarily make a coherent argument"

"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

"I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself."

"The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance."

"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them."

"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."

"Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about."

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."