Attention Quotes

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college. I was not outspoken when I was younger and I hated being the center of attention. But I had a dream of being an actor. I went to NYU and studied theatre. I learned a craft. And began my career straight out of college.

But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart.

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

Opera is given so little attention in the national press.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

I have a short attention span.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.