Attention Quotes

The challenge of nonfiction is keeping the attention of a reader over span of time, and to keep the quality of the writing as high as it needs to be to keep people's attention.

Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.

He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

It is where we embrace our questions. . . . Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?

I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.

The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

The common perception is it only happens to people who aren't paying attention.

All attention is introspection.

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

I loved getting tutored and having that one-on-one attention that you sometimes do not get in regular school.

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.

Attention is the material I work with.

Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

The fact is that we do pay attention. I think that it's unfortunately the case, whether you're a man or woman and you're running for president you need to look as good as you can look.

I'm not one for a lot of media attention.

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

When it comes to how much attention something gets or how much attention it draws, I really kind of just try to expect nothing at this point. Whatever it turns into, it turns into.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

I try not to eat too much fast food but still go for hot wings occasionally. As I get older, I have to pay more attention to my diet. My favorite food is jerk pork.

There are a lot of idiots on the Internet getting a lot of attention.

I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.

Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away.

I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.

I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

I believe in paying special attention to every project that you do and supporting the projects you do.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

We would like to draw the attention of our partners, of potential investors to the Russian Far East.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.

Don't allow the approval and attention of others to destroy you.

We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

If you want your voice to be heard, speak from your heart.

If you can prevent one fight among your children, let it be the fight for your attention.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.

Make it a practice to kick yourself for every time you answer your children with the words NOT RIGHT NOW.

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?