Quotes About Attention

You're a goner, Donovan. When a hungry man spends more time lookin' at his woman than eatin' , he's in trouble.

I had some people say to me, you don't - you wouldn't give air time to a holocaust denier. Why bother covering if [Donald Trump] tweet is totally crazy?

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

Honestly, the two main things that I always look for is, when I read the script for the first time, do I read it quickly? Because if I read it quick, that's an important telltale sign.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

Your mind simply cant focus forward and downward all at the same time.

How about that oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. And you know, the oil slick is going everywhere. So the next time somebody lands on the Hudson, it won't be that big a deal.

If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.

Hey, Cunningham - Andy Warhol called. You're at 14:55 and we're tickin' big-time here, Chachi.

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I've been on the cover of "Time" magazine just about - I think it was four times now. Four times now in the last few months, and a lot of it is because of this. They've never seen this happen before.

Every time there's a tragedy, everything goes up.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

Digiphrenia"—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

I'm kind of ADD. So I try to do one thing at a time. Otherwise, I would be sort of scattered and won't be 100% where I need to be for certain things.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically "niche" show is that you spend too much time on the "niche" and not enough time on the "show."

When digital culture first came along, it was supposed to create more time, by allowing us to shift time around. Somehow instead we've strapped devices to ourselves that ping us all the time.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air,Gone with the wind-

Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?