Quotes About Attention

One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

Smart people focus on the right things.

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

I would walk down the street and people would scream from their cars at me and, generally, I'd turn around and it's a 13-year-old girl. And it's funny because that is the audience that I think big studios are always trying to target.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

You may not like me. You may think I'm cocky or arrogant. But you will be thinking about me.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

Who really cares what a celebrity thinks on a given issue?

We are all cognitive misers. Our brains do not expend mental resources thoroughly examining problems when snap judgments will do.

Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.

I'm thoroughly convinced that people want info-tainment.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned. At the most basic level, we remember when we pay attention. We remember when we are deeply engaged.

Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

I'm very thoughtful and thorough when it comes to my looks and the detail I put into my drag.

We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process.

Sometimes you're just not in the manager's thoughts.

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.