Attention Quotes

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before.

But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

The state of our state needs serious attention.

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

I also want to draw attention to the responsibilities that people have to live up to their election promises and to live up to the votes that were cast by the people of Wales, in the General Election, in the expectation that we would deliver this promise.

My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It wasn't frightening, it was more exhilarating.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

There's a crazy amount of goodwill, and I don't know where it came from, and I don't understand, but the more I pay attention to it, the more it's going to sting when it flips, so I think I'm almost subconsciously cultivating this naivety to it all.

I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.

I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly. David Blaine is an example of someone who's better at self-promoting than me. He is much better than I am.

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.

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

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.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

I love attention.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

I've been extremely lucky to be a part of these really great shows that have gotten so much attention.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.