Best 2917 quotes in «attention quotes» category

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people.

If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention.

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

I get an opportunity to communicate with the audience about the movie that I've made. I get the chance to bring attention to the film that I've made. I care a lot about the movies that I make. I want them to reach an audience, and I want them to be successful. I promote nearly everything that I do, unless I've got some bad taste in my mouth.

I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

I give people my heart and my full attention.

If you want to know what Jesus meant by what Jesus said, pay attention to that Jesus did.

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.

I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.

I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

I had the global outlook that I really wanted to capture the world. I would like the attention of the world at least and I wanted that.

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.

I have a short attention span.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

I have a trainer, and I'm not a trainer person. I don't like the attention. I don't like the one-on-one scrutiny. But I've had to enter into a very sort of rigorous rehabilitation program to avoid surgery on my back. I've already had four surgeries on my feet and two on my knee - all from Broadway dancing injuries. On Broadway, they don't really rehab the dancers like they do in sports. It's, "The show must go on" .

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I have manifested everything I want in the way of physical things. I have a beautiful family and enough abundance to take care of them. I put my attention on manifesting for other people, helping those who are less fortunate.

I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.

I have no attention span. I get bored so fast.