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Quotes About Attention

I want everyone to whistle when I come on screen. However, even if that doesn't happen, I hope people like my work.
~ Shehnaaz Gill
I used to keep my Air Jordans icy white. I had one toothbrush for my teeth - and a couple of toothbrushes for my shoes.
~ Justin Timberlake
The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.
~ Daniel Pfeiffer
I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'
~ Gloria Steinem
We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
~ Lamar Alexander
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
~ Matt Taibbi
I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.
~ Tyler Hamilton
I think bubbles are things people see with 20/20 hindsight. If you look at any particular period where prices go up and then they go down, you will always find people who predicted that they would go down. Those are the people you pay attention to.
~ Eugene Fama
These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.
~ Anne Lamott
I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.
~ Tao Lin
Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.
~ Neil Postman
The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
~ Alexandra Petri
I was in relationship with a guy who was much older than me - either he was past his prime and I was coming into mine. There was nothing I could do to keep his attention.
~ Deana Carter
I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good paint job, and that's the same as everything in life.
~ Sean Lock
My father, who is now 94, was an actor. The prime thing he taught us as children was to walk through the world with our eyes open.
~ Bettany Hughes
We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.
~ Salman Khurshid
Sometimes I think I made a big mistake by not paying more attention to Prince Axel. He was looking for a wife and genuinely cared for me. Well, he had the hots for me is more like it. I would have made a great princess.
~ Mamie Van Doren
I don't have any thoughts on blogs, because I don't read them. I don't read them not out of any principle, but because there are only 24 hours in a day, and I like to read books.
~ Robert Christgau
Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.
~ J. B. Smoove
I used to be so excited when I saw my name in print.
~ Ryan Adams
Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
~ Harold Feinstein
With all the attention given to the personal computer, it's hard to remember that other companion machine in the room - the printer.
~ Ellen Ullman
I was a very, very careful printer when I used 8-by-10 film. I probably spent more time on printing than anything else. The more the prints were appreciated, the more time I spent on them.
~ Ruth Bernhard
Being a mom makes me prioritize the game of basketball for what it is - a game. For so long I was so addicted to it and it would get me really high or really low. Now I know that once I walk off the court, I can't control that anymore and I have other things I have to focus on and give my attention and love to.
~ Diana Taurasi