Quotes About Attention

Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she really bothered us half as much as we claim she does, we'd look away and stop feeding her empire.

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

I think the NHL has done a great job of building the sport as far as getting the people's attention and letting them know what's going on in hockey - especially when the powers meet each other.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'

Being manager means living in the middle of the media attention, through praise and critics. This is something I live with. It's intense and very demanding.

One of my pet hates is people re-Tweeting praise, I loathe it more than anything else in the world.

Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.

The pitch should be very clear about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and why I should care. If you can cover those things quickly and precisely, it's easy for me to decide whether I want to spend more time with you or not.

Precision matters, breh.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

When you play football in the Premier League, everybody is watching.

Of course I pay attention to the Premier League - it's one of the greatest leagues in Europe.

There aren't many Asian players in Europe or the Premier League, so that's more attention for me.

We all like being part of the Premier League. There is a lot of attention and we enjoy that but football is always the same. If you win, you have friends. If you don't win, you are looking for friends. That's the game.