Quotes About Attention

A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays close attention to the thing she's brought to evaluate.

My older son, when things were at the peak of attention, comes up to me and says: 'Mom, I know people are saying you're doing stuff that's cool. But I listened, and all you did was talk. It was pretty boring.' Thanks for that.

I've never been the attention-getter of Black Eyed Peas.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.

And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go.

No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.

I don't think I've ever listened to 'Sgt. Pepper's' the whole way through.

When you are young, love happens easily; at least, that's how you perceive it. You fall for the person if you get a little bit of attention.

We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after the fact.

Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.

The bad press started to play a big part in how people perceived me, and I started playing on that too, which was a big mistake.

People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects of cognition, perception and attention.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.

Instagram is a perception game.

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.