Best 2917 quotes in «attention quotes» category

I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

I'm tryna put out the right stuff and just do me and not pay attention to who's hating and who's loving me and make the music I love to make, and make it the best I can.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.

I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

I'm very proud to be part of a cast that's gonna put Hot Shots on screen for the first time, Hot Shots are the first line of defense against wildland fire and these guys are so selfless, they are guys that do what they do without wanting any kind of attention for it.

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

I’m wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it’s masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music’s great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves.

I'm very shy. I know it's weird for a person who models lingerie and swimsuits, but I don't like to be the center of attention!

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

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

In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there.

In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

In cinema we have all kinds of ways of communicating: cinematography, lighting, character performance. If you pay attention to silent era movie actors, they are big about postures and really exaggerated expressions so you can understand how they feel. We use all kinds of techniques from cinema to help communicate emotion.

Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.

Increasingly, consumers don't search for products and services. Rather, services come to their attention via social media.

I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

In effect, dividing your attention means that neither (or none) of the things you're working on is really getting the full effect of your intelligence, and that it in the end takes you longer than it would if you did one thing at a time.

I never paid attention to Michael Jackson, but when he died, it was like an explosion in some strange way. This intensity was released, something really powerful. But how can I say that? I also like to keep a hidden force behind my work.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.

I never knew where I was going to end up when I started film. I didn't start film to be famous. Of course, it's a public medium, and of course we chose a public medium because we like people to pay attention to the work that we're doing. But I didn't know what I was going to end up.

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.

I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.

In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature.

Influence is providing attention and value to others.

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

In many traditions, crows are messengers and close attention is paid to their actions.

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.