Attention Quotes

I try not to go crazy, but yes, I pay attention to what I eat.

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.

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.

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.

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.

I love attention.

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.