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Quotes About Attention

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fame attracts lunatics.
~ Elton John
Fame doesn't end loneliness.
~ Claire Danes
I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.
~ Nicole Kidman
I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.
~ Guy Pearce
I don't even think about fame at all.
~ Leighton Meester
Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.
~ Terry O'Quinn
I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
~ William Bernbach
I have been a part of the teams which had the original great man - Sachin Tendulkar. I remember in 2007-08 tour of Australia, Sachin paaji would get all the attention from the locals.
~ Gautam Gambhir
When something gets attention so quickly, people sometimes will look for reasons to find fault and tear it down.
~ John Hawkes
More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat and tears go into figuring out the names because they are so important. The call signs say a lot about you. The brotherhood that's evoked by the name is quite profound.
~ Stephen Gaghan
I don't care about media crocodile tears for pageviews.
~ Fredrick Brennan
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Browbeating the tech industry for a problem that does not exist also draws attention away from the real problems with Google and other tech companies.
~ Mazie Hirono
My attention is more on the technical process of filmmaking; I like to observe cinematography and direction.
~ Anupama Parameswaran
I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.
~ Maurice Greene
I worry about technical details - did I mix the cello half a decibel too high? Things like that.
~ Steven Price
Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because it would include so many places for attention.
~ Lucy Dacus
Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
~ Sam Kean
Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
~ Ninette de Valois
I'm here to get the story on to the page. It would be good to catch your attention, and I have to make you want to read on, and I suppose I prefer you don't actually think about the 'how' at all - the writing technique, the 'style', or even who it is that's putting this together.
~ Ronald Frame
Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now.
~ Goldie Hawn
Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.
~ Jon Scieszka