Attention Quotes

Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

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

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.

Everyone's attention span these days is limited to how long it takes to flick the iPod wheel on to the next song.

In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

In the '60s and '70s, people didn't pay a lot of attention to gangs. I think gangs still existed, but gangs had fallen out of criminological favor.

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.

I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right.

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

All we do in our lifetime is to scream in different ways to get attention in this dark universe!

Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic.

Woman, I’m trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention.

Acts perpetrated by women, particularly attractive women, get far more media attention.

You walk a fine line when you have a performance at a show just as you do with having celebrities attend a show - you never want the attention to be drawn too far away from the clothing.

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

You've got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body's doing. It's about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving.

I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such attention suggests that black men and women feel sorry for themselves.

A lot of people believe you only need a vision. This is simply not correct. You need brilliant execution every day. It's about attention to all the details of go to market.

If you pay too much attention to your reputation, you could lose your character.

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

I give people my heart and my full attention.

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians.

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

I'm keenly aware of how important it is to set a good example. You may not think that your kids are paying attention to you, especially with something like money, but they probably are.

I enjoy the attention. I like the cameras. In a way, they make me play better.

All the best times in music were rebellious. I mean, even like Elvis, people didn't want their daughters paying attention to him. He was considered too sexual!

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.

Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.

There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton. And that's because they're paying attention.

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.

For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are involved.

If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

When I say my mission is to make polo bigger, I don't expect it to be baseball, but for sure to bring the attention of a lot more people to the sport.