Attention Quotes

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

I can sketch up a storm, and I'm very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.

Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.

I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

People only have so much attention.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.