Attention Quotes · Page 97

We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.

— William Sloane Coffin

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

— Robert Bly

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

— Simone Weil

I think it's really challenging to capture a minute of something and make it spectacular, interesting and attention grabbing.

— Michaela Strachan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four…

— Billy Corgan

Touch her heart, not her body. Steal her attention, not her virginity. Make her smile, not cry.

— Anonymous

It was harder, I think, to get attention for the films that I wanted to do than I expected it to be.

— Patty Jenkins

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

— William James

She's surrounded by many men waiting for you to mess up. You really expect her to continue to fight for your attention…

— Anonymous

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying…

— Pam Houston

I was in acting classes from the age of 9, dance classes, music classes - my mom put a lot of energy…

— Milla Jovovich

What I'm trying to bring attention to is that human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in…

— Nikki Haley

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity…

— Robert Hall

Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to…

— Robert Warren

Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side.…

— Jonathan Ames

There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the…

— Richard Louv

That's what YouTube's become, it's become like a lot of vloggers capitalizing on this sort of like "My fans, I love my…

— Bo Burnham

One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Self-love grows when you trust that the universe is on your side, form your desires from the heart and watch the higher…

— Deepak Chopra

At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a…

— Julia Bacha

I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at…

— Mallory Ortberg

I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my…

— Kalup Linzy

I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion,…

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

I talked to Shailene Woodley the next day [after arrest]. She was fine, and she was very happy. She knew that it…

— Ansel Elgort

I'm lucky with my skin - it doesn't require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a…

— Arizona Muse

Attention is very, very easy to create and receive on Twitter when it's rooted in something really negative.

— Karrion Kross

Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food.

— Joe Bastianich

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention…

— Callie Thorne

It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention.

— Larry Merchant

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

— Jordana Spiro

Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

— Maureen Dowd

We would like to draw the attention of our partners, of potential investors to the Russian Far East.

— Vladimir Putin

If you want to improve the football, of course you need to put attention on the academy, on the school, the facility.

— Fabio Cannavaro

I'm all about simple, elegant, and effective, and when I wear the rubber boot on my head, it draws a lot of…

— Vermin Supreme

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I think when you're a young kid and you get into sports, you get into them because one guy gets your attention.

— Owen Hargreaves

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's…

— Nalini Singh

American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

— Jack Germond

“Popularity was an attractive snare. Only fools wanted attention at the expense of peace.”

— Bremer Acosta

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

— David Duchovny