Quotes About Attention

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

When we try to make everything a priority, the fact is nothing is truly a priority.

Bungle is definitely a priority right now.

I shopped at Harrods and Louis Vuitton, as they were top on my priority list. And that's when a friendly shopkeeper told me that I could get mugged as my luxury bags were screaming for attention. And he gave me garbage bags to cover them. So here I was walking around in London with garbage bags in my hand.

Becky G is a huge priority for me.

When I arrived in prison, they locked the prison down that day because the media was all over the place.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I never thought my private life would be newsworthy.

I think it's so flattering that people would even give me enough attention to know about my private life.

While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.

My private life is always under scrutiny. Each and every action is analysed and re-analysed.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

I won't fool anybody by saying, 'Oh! I'm a private person.' I love people, flashbulbs and the paparazzi.

Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.

I was a needy person. I think most pro athletes are. We're all used to a lot of attention.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

First, everyone hits on Sidharth Shukla. I've seen it. He is the complete package. But this is also a problem. The girls don't leave him alone.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

I have read that, when you are writing or working on something creative, and your attention wanders, your brain is processing and working on what you have just done. But I find it hard to believe that my brain is really taking five hours to fully process the seven minutes I have managed to spend focused on one thing.

For me, the enemy is procrastination, and losing attention, you know? It's not the writing that's difficult, it's sitting down to write - if that makes any sense. I feel I can write pretty well, and I can write pretty effectively.