Quotes About Attention

We're losing hope in the idea of trying to convince the American people to pay attention to something that matters. To some extent we are all the enemy, all of us have failed.

Do not practice mistakes. Go slow enough that you almost never make a mistake.

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.

You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

When you just dump information onto your audience, you are not really making an impact on their hearts and minds. But, when you start telling a story, a magic thing happens: They instantly give you their full attention.

For if one is to be a warrior, he has to pay attention to his trade and art. Discipline is the first rule of success.

to a person zoning out- "your display is on screen saver

Who was scarier - the girl who didn't care about the bigger picture, or the kids who did care, but were looking at the wrong picture?

It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community.

Once paparazzi become a reality, then things change because you become more conscious of photos.

The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.

A sure-fire way to know you're crazy is if more than one person has told you you'd be great on a reality show - and you agree with them.

Everyone's trying to get a reality show, and we're just trying to avoid accidentally being on a reality show.

You have all these different reality shows, all social media, all these different things where people have to act a certain way to get attention.

When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine.

I never watched reality shows. I was obviously very aware of them because they're everywhere, but I was not somebody who watched them.

Reality shows have caused fatigue amongst the public.

Reality TV rots people's brains.

As long as Reality TV doesn't get boring, it's good.

I cannot believe that people really sit and devote hours of their lives watching reality TV like 'Big Brother.'