Attention Quotes

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

The value of impermanence is to call attention to the permanent.

I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.