Attention Quotes

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.

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.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

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.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

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.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

I can generate attention quickly.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.