Quotes About Attention

I am still a normal kid, but when I'm walking on the street, there will be people who ask me to sign a poster or take a picture with them.

We see many posters and standees at cinema halls, and some catch attention. But these posters are soon forgotten. Taking a picture with the actors, enabled by AR, helps record a memory.

We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.

On average, people miss about 70 percent of the posts in their 'Instagram' feed. What this is about is making sure that the 30 percent you see is the best 30 percent possible.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

Most Americans may not realize that the news they consume is driven in part by the media mantra, 'if it bleeds, it leads.'

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

I'm very pernickety about cast and make-up. Continuity things can go dreadfully wrong in film; the beards are different, red waistcoats become blue.

Taking on music that's not played very much is a contribution I can give. There's so much I feel that needs more attention.

People like controversy because that's what sells.

Whatever I do becomes controversial.

If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.

My books have all generated controversy.

Controversy sells books.

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

I know how people are. We fixate on controversy and all that.

I think I was born for controversies.

Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.

I don't feel people are that interested in snooker any more and the only thing that will get snooker back into the limelight is more controversy.