Attention Quotes

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.