Quotes About Attention

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

The real threat to reading isn't the time we spend hanging out, it's the time we spend online.

Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.

Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.

How to get taken: Spend most of your time making sure you're not.

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

If someone is doing something crazy - or what I think is crazy - I'm watching, but also am I keeping the actual seriousness of someone actually running for president in my mind all the time?

For the first time, I was the center of attention. Everyone watched me as if I were a bomb. Would I explode and cause a disaster or would I pop and cause a miracle?

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night's date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn't think of looking at another woman.

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.

F1 is a fight for people's time. There are millions of options today for how to spend it. That is probably the biggest difference from 1968 to now.

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

We are living at a time where there are so many films available to watch through so many formats all the time. It's hard for any film to stand out in that din.

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.

The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!

There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am.

If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.

That's what animals do all of the time; they watch out, they watch out, and I saw, "This is us now." Us, the world, we are watching out.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.

Keep your weather eye open, and sing out every time.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket - which is but a matter of saying, Scatter your money and your attention; but the wise man saith, Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar