Attention Quotes

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.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

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.

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.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

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.

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.