Quotes About Attention

I loved getting tutored and having that one-on-one attention that you sometimes do not get in regular school.

Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.

Girls grab me all the time. To me, that's regular, so it's not really crazy.

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

When a regular guy like me starts getting attention, it's natural to want more. I wanted the next video to be bigger than the last.

I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement.

Having 'The Expats' not be 'wholesale-y' rejected by the world made it possible for me to write the second book and have a publisher buy it before it was entirely written. And it made it easier for me and my publisher to get 'The Accident' out into the world without trying to convince people to pay attention to it the way you do for a first novel.

Lately, I've been getting too much attention with the Met Gala and work going so well that I try to find rejection in my day. I'll seek out someone on the street or at the farmers' market and ask for something where I know they'll say no. No one likes rejection, but it's real. And I don't want to lose that feeling.

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

While a lot of the issues we raise awareness around are related, we want to use our platform to draw attention to the fact that the impact they have on different communities is often distinct.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.

My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career.

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.

Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match.

I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.

I'm not really a flashy guy anywhere else - I don't dress flashy or anything else - but I like to keep my cars nice, and I like to customize them. I can do things a little flashier and a little faster, and with a little bit more thought. This is kind of the release part of basketball.