We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.
I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.
Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.
In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.
To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.
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.