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Quotes About Attention

We honestly shouldn't be paying attention to nothing Kanye West says until he actually goes out there and gets the help we all think he needs. That's what keeps these stigmas about mental health and everything going - we act like it's a joke.
~ Charlamagne tha God
Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.
~ Howie Carr
Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
~ Natasha Hamilton
You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.
~ Linda Ronstadt
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
~ Susan Sontag
Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
~ Carmen Busquets
I had seen a lot of bullying on social media. If this is happening to me, who only a few people are paying attention to, what happens to somebody who is on a bigger scale?
~ Whitney Wolfe Herd
I think Canada has a great story, and I'm glad to tell it. And if there's a moment where the world is paying a little more attention to Canada, well, I think it's important to try and capitalize on that.
~ Justin Trudeau
Whether they cheer or whether they boo really doesn't bother me as long as they're paying attention.
~ Scott Hall
I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.
~ Gina Barreca
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.
~ Tommy Shaw
Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.
~ Merle Haggard
We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.
~ Mike Johanns
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.
~ Peter Matthiessen
When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.
~ Andrew Motion
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
~ Berkeley Breathed
We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.
~ Cynthia Nixon
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?
~ Joshua Foer
I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Generally I find that kids ask better questions than you get with adults. Something that kids will do a lot is, they're so nervous, and they're not really paying attention, so they'll ask the same question someone just asked. And you're trying to be nice and not embarrass them any more than they are already.
~ James Patterson
When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.
~ David Macaulay
The saddest thing is when a guy is paying so much attention to the world and everything going by that he can't take the time for his own mother.
~ Evel Knievel
I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
~ Noam Chomsky