Best 2917 quotes in «attention quotes» category

A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.

A lot of people think that telling people you're gay is something someone might say just to get attention.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.

Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.

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

Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

Americans shouldn't start a military attack, and they shouldn't bombard Iran, and they shouldn't interfere with the internal affairs of the country. And the Americans should pay more attention to the human right issues in Iran.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.

[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are on the side of the lords and barons.... We...are pulling up the drawbridge against the peasants.

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.

An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived for a time in Davenport's coal cellar) once said: "There is no reason why theoretical economics should be a monopoly of the reactionaries." All my life I have tried to take this warning to heart, and I dare call it to your favorable attention.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

And then you'd turn to me and smile that funny smile, and I know you'd forgotten all about me and just remembered -- but I was never mad at you. Half of your attention is better than all of anyone else's.

An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed... I don't have daily newspapers, and I like to feel when I get up in the morning my attention is fixed on the work I am going to do.

An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.

And yet, in a superficial sense, it is true that the camera does not "lie": given a chance, it will faithfully render everything within the field of view of the lens and show it precisely as it is.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

An icon means nothing to me. I don't understand what it means to anybody actually. It seems like a word of convenience. It seems to attend to the huge success of certain kinds of movies that I did, but there's no personal utility in being an icon. I don't know what an icon does, except stand in a corner quietly accepting everyone's attention. I like to work, so there's no utility in being an icon.

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Anonymity was nothing more than me wanting to make it about the music and not necessarily the image. Of course, you realize later that by going anonymous, there is an image, and it's mysterious. So that kind of backfired. But it also worked to my advantage, since it certainly got people's attention.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

Any given moment contains unlimited futures that can become real. The reality that occurs is the one you pay attention to.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.

Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.

Anything which draws attention to me because I am so attractive.

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.