Attention Quotes · Page 111

I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I…

— David Lowery

“He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.”

— Wendell Berry

We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after…

— Fab Moretti

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

— Flannery O'Connor

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

— Wallace D. Wattles

I've learned you have to pay attention and stick with the game plan.

— Shawn Porter

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad…

— Robert Greene

We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.

— Parker Harris

“I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love…

— Joshua Ferris

Jesus, when he was on Earth, he was out there helping people, right? Why did he perform those miracles? To call attention…

— Jack LaLanne

“You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only…

— Shannon L. Alder

Some of my favorite experiences of art are when I am there but my attention has wandered. I think stimulation is overrated,…

— Sheila Heti

Makeup is part of my daily routine. It's the time in my mornings when I can concentrate on me, and me alone.…

— Kat Von D

Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get…

— Robin Sloan

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation,…

— William Bartram

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

Different reactions while film test screening doesn't mean even the audience thinks ambiguity is a bad thing. But if you're asking them…

— Barry Levinson

What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something…

— Alice Dreger

If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no…

— Ambrose

They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had…

— Robert Crumb

I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and…

— Misha Collins

For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius…

— Jonny Lee Miller

I’m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what I’m saying. I…

— Kevin Drum

In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I'm very happy with how I look. I never had any problem in getting work or male attention.

— Huma Qureshi

A part of the bigger picture is much more interesting to me than just bringing attention or focus on myself or my…

— Eliza Scanlen

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

— Andrew Weil

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

— Anonymous

It's true that blondes attract most of the attention. But it's the brunettes who look prettier as they get older.

— Kathy Hilton

“You know,” he said, “you didn’t have to go to all of this trouble just to get my attention.”

— Bridget Zinn

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

— Phil Cooke

I think some of my colleagues' spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

— Shauna Niequist

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…

— Jonny Lee Miller

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

— Christian Bale

Power itself is simply a word to describe attention, awareness, which embodies all things.

— Frederick Lenz

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

— Eli Pariser

When you are competing for attention and eyeballs, articulating value and evoking possibility and vision can be powerful tools.

— Lewis Howes

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

— Ted Naifeh