Attention Quotes

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

I try not to pay much attention to what people say-I just try to concentrate on the game.

Pay real attention to your basic human instincts when you face gray area decisions, but also try to have a clear sense of when you have done all you can reasonably do.

I just like to do work that inspires me, and I don't pay any attention to whether it's a high- or low-budget movie.

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.

I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.

The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

I think that, from Vaclav Havel own experience, he knew if we all paid attention to what was going on, the chances were that even the most horrible dictators wouldn't execute people.

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.

Cats are sleek, cats are fast. Cats are... well... they aren’t mean their just wiley. And they will grab your attention in the most seductive way.

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.

Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.

It's very good for us to say, as liberals, that we should be moved by everything, but the fact is that there's just so much competing for our attention.

I do think there's something when you have an unbroken day, and it feels like you and your attention can just be together like birds again and you can actually think and dream a little.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So I also have that aspect to take care of as well.

I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.

Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

I was paying attention to where Steven Soderbergh had the camera and his shots. I was blown away.

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.

Rafe didn't just flirt-he charmed girls right up to the point where they fell for him, then he changed his mind.I called him a player with attention deficit disorder.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

I think my generation has grown up knowing that you don't pay attention to trolls because trollin's what they do.

In fact, I think 500 years from now, the two Americans so far who will be remembered are George Washington and Neil Armstrong, who, amazingly hasn't been paid very much attention.

Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

On the intimate relationships, I'd say you can be someone who wouldn't normally get attention in traditional media and come onto Instagram and build this massive following.

The goal for me in business is to work on things I want to work on, and be as successful as I can, without achieving any sort of attention or fame. That would be the best. That would be ideal.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

It's a welcome development that the president is paying attention to the war crimes that are being committed by the Assad regime and by their supporters in Iran and in Russia.

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

All humans need love, attention, and appreciation, and those can be very female traits. I feel like they should be male and female traits, but I think that they are more easily attributed to women.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.

It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.

Morbid attention is when we focus only on the shortcomings that come with aging, which are inevitable, and think that everything that is wrong is a result of aging.

Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.