Attention Quotes

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

I'm glad I don't live in Primrose Hill any more. I couldn't even walk through the park. You never invite that kind of attention.

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

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.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

I don't pay attention to the ratings.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.