Attention Quotes

I'm a sensationalist. I'm a big mouth. I get attention. In this world you have to - if you want a mass-market presentation, you have to get attention.

A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by

I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.

You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

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

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

Kurt [Cobain ]was a feminist. A lot of the bashing against Courtney [Love] I think has to deal with gender bias and the media, and I think that he liked that she was taking the attention off of him.

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue.

I think the West needs to get away from the habit of regarding the regime's nuclear tests and ballistic launches as isolated provocations timed to generate maximum attention.

In the digital space, attention is a currency. We earn it. We spend it

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

I'm really paying attention. People make up their minds late.

Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.

I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it.

Healthy self esteem is paying attention to how others make us feel, and then choosing those with whom we spend time.

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention.

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

I've always known and been interested in people who are a little bit off the norm. I like to call attention to the idea that they are there, that they are real people, not invisible.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

We must treat others as if they matter, as if they are worthy of care and attention.

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.

The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.

Email is a system that delivers other people's priorities to your attention. It's up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It's not the other way around.