Attention Quotes

A girl should command attention, not suffer it.

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

My dad would throw me in the picture if they needed an extra. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.

I can't afford the luxury of music while I'm flying an airplane. I have to pay attention to what I'm doing.

Cats would rule the world if they had longer attention spans.

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.

There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

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

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes?

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.

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, "Where's your other album?"

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.

Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

I need attention. I like the attention.