Attention Quotes

The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Right now it seems like the girls are drawing more attention to country music.

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.

If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous.

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

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.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

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.