Claude C. Hopkins Quotes

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

There is a sense in which, like, it could be the case that the incentives of running for president and the incentives of getting maximum attention for yourself, sometimes align, and at a certain point, they stop aligning, and you just keep going with the incentives for maximum attention for yourself.

Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

She turned the key, never taking her eyes from him.

There is always more information than attention

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.

Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see.

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

I feel no different than I felt at 99, 98 or 97. Just because you live a long time, you get all this attention. Just because you survived? Of course, I survived a lot.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

You must learn to see, what you are looking at