Attention Quotes

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 was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.

I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.