Attention Quotes

I'm really focused on These Days and I'm trying to take it as far as I can - I feel like it's a strong body of work. I just want to give it the ame kind of attention I give all my projects.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

I don't draw attention to myself or have security pushing people away.

This is an attraction based Universe. You cannot say no. You are always saying, 'Yes please, yes please, yes please,' with your attention.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate.

Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Most songs come from being attentive. Attentive to life, attentive to scripture, attentive to your heart. Pay attention!

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

People crave attention and appreciation more than they do bread.

The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

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.

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.

If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.

No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly.

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.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.

If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.