Attention Quotes

The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy.

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

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.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

I think that in Hollywood, it's hard because so many people do turn out crazy. I don't need to go out every night to get attention. I'm happy with the amount that I have.

Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.

As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him in the general election.