Attention Quotes

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

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.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.