Quotes About Attention

When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?

Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.

People have started recognising me. I can't move around as freely as I used to.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the individual will continue to be gripped by fear.

It's boxing. It's about getting people interested. If I didn't say some stupid things from time to time, there wouldn't be that many people interested in me. But I let my fists do the talking when the bell rings.

Entertainment is often a medium in which you can put yourself front and center.

I love acting, but I hate being in front of camera - I get really awkward. I hate being the centre of attention.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

When I go out with my mates I'm never the centre of attention. Most of them, and they're probably right, keep telling me they're funnier than I am and I'm nicking their life.

In those days the typical Hollywood mother ran around looking like Eleanor Roosevelt, wearing a hat with a feather in it to attract attention. I never wore a hat and I never looked like Eleanor Roosevelt.

We should have signs in the subways and shops "Watch your thoughts!" "Watch your words!

Pero lo que significa y cómo lo significa y quién lo dice y a quién le toca morir así; me gustaría creer que hay esperanza, digamos, en el hecho de poner atención a las palabras.

The subtlety of your visual attention. You could alert me or change the subject with a contraction of your iris.

Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow.

Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.

Dressed in a bright blue, skin-hugging mini-dress and matching tights, Jessica was an eye-catching sight.

there were many occasions on which I had to skim as rapidly as I could to get through those survey courses that gave us two weeks to finish Don Quixote, ten days for War and Peace, courses designed to produce college graduates who could say they'd read the classics. By then I knew enough to regret reading those books that way. And I promised myself that I would revisit them as soon as I could give them the time and attention they deserved.

She was scornful. "He talks to you personally?" "He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don't bother to listen.

The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.