Quotes About Attention

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

To help your concentration, don't take too much time.

A Clock is not time; it's numbers and springs. Pay it no mind.

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.

A film star is a kind of public monument, and everyone's staring at them, and they've kind of got railings around them, and they're rather miserable most of the time.

If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.

If you make time each month to give your money some attention, you'll start the next year in fabulous financial shape.

In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.