Attention Quotes

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

The state of our state needs serious attention.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

I broke things to get attention.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.