Attention Quotes

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have a small ego. For me, appearing on a stage or presenting a cake is the same thing. You need a crowd around you to do it.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don't read or pay attention to it.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

Plus the public's attention span is so short right now, if a skater doesn't strike while the iron is hot... well it's not like people will forget you, but they just won't care anymore.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.