Quotes About Attention

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

I love the fame, I love the attention, and I love the perks.

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing.

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.

SMALL THINGS & GREAT He that lets the small things bind him leaves the great undone behind him.

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with ideas of things and will not admit that every individual thing has its own determinate idea which is always one and the same, he will have nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy the power of reasoning.

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Don't buy clothes at department stores—just take the clothes into the dressing room, post a photo of yourself on Instagram wearing them, and leave as the likes start accumulating by the hundreds.

When a wide variety of mental processes are treated with bare, non-judgmental attention, they are held in an open, spacious container. This enables the meditation practitioner to befriend his or her thoughts and emotions, no matter what they are, and reduces the likelihood of being tyrannized by an inordinately demanding superego

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

As he grew up, he had much attention from the supernally lovely elf women. Without gods, and with few children, the elves know not marriage, but their nature was such that their women had more wish of love and their men less than among humans. Thus Skafloc found himself in great favor, and many a good time did he have in the light nights of summer.

Memang berita mutasi tidak pernah menarik perhatianku; pengangkatan, pemecatan, perpindahan, pensiunan. Tak ada urusan! Kepriyayian bukan duniaku. Peduli apa iblis diangkat jadi mantri cacar atau diberhentikan tanpa hormat karena kecurangan? Duniaku bukan jabatan, pangkat, gaji dan kecurangan. Duniaku bumi manusia dengan persoalannya.

Orang tak bisa berhati-hati setiap saat buat seumur hidupnya.

Nah, kalian para perawan remaja, telah aku susun surat ini untuk kalian, bukan saja agar kalian tahu tentang nasib buruk yang menimpa para gadis seumur kalian, juga agar kalian punya perhatian terhadap sejenis kalian yang mengalami kemalangan itu.