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Quotes About Attention

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.
~ Elliott Gould
A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.
~ Erich Leinsdorf
The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.
~ Guy Burgess
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
~ Hanoi Hannah
From now on, match me with one guy at a time.
~ Harry Greb
Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
~ J. California Cooper
The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
~ Joni Mitchell
when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
~ Jose Saramago
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.
~ Juan Cole
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
~ Cameron Russell
There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.
~ Chris Ofili
Donald Trump just needs the ego fed all the time.
~ David Brooks
Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
~ Donald Trump
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
~ Douglas Coupland
Every-time we use a product or service, someone is serving us.
~ Earl Nightingale
We need time to lose interest in things.
~ Don DeLillo
Many people assume that they can probably find many ways to save time. This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you begin to use your time effectively.
~ Douglas Merrill
I guess I'm happy that I'm getting the attention. Otherwise, I'd just be playing in a local bar in front of my family members, and I'm sure they'd get sick of that in no time
~ Gavin DeGraw
I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)
~ George Clooney
I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.
~ Jacob Bannon
The world is crammed with messages. We'll never have time to read them all.
~ Janette Turner Hospital