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Quotes About Attention

During this brief interval in the proceedings, we can take a pause to remind ourselves that there is an end to all this in sight and we're almost halfway there. That doesn't mean you can stop paying attention. In fact, you'll have to try harder from here on in.
~ Grant Morrison
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives. Where we focus our attention.
~ Greg Anderson
When a guy is into you, he let's you know it.
~ Greg Behrendt
their stories, tell their tales, pose for pictures, and shake their heads for the TV cameras. As one high school student told the reporter from the Today show, "Nothing much ever happens around here, so this is kind of fun. Sad, but fun at the same time.
~ Gregg Olsen
There's another, simple, idea that has been shared on the Internet: after buckling a child into a car seat, a driver takes off his or her left shoe and puts it on the back seat. Once they reach their destination, they won't go far without the shoe, and they'll be reminded of the child.
~ Gregg Olsen
Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.
~ Gregory David Roberts
in the centre of six hundred stares and whispers
~ Gregory David Roberts
It's a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear and the anguish in it.
~ Gregory David Roberts
There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.
~ Richard Holbrooke
Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
~ Payne Stewart
But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in.
~ Roone Arledge
The Cubs, we built one of best farm systems - I think for a while there, it was the best farm system in baseball. And that was great. It got a lot of attention. But we didn't want the credit for the farm system. What we wanted was to see if we could do the tricky part, which was turn a lauded farm system into a World Series champion.
~ Theo Epstein
By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't getting any attention, which was good in one sense in that I could get their work for cheaper!
~ Cheech Marin
'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
~ Pamela Sargent
When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep "blood diamonds" out of international trade.
~ Peter Singer
When you grow up with parents that are known worldwide and having so much attention from media and all of the tabloid magazines, it's really tough.
~ Rumer Willis
American Christians are quite able to organize around issues that concern them. Yet religious persecution appears not to have grabbed their attention, despite worldwide media coverage of the atrocities against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East.
~ Kirsten Powers
Everything that was happening with AEW in the world of professional wrestling and the worldwide attention that it was grabbing, for me, like I said, when it all came about, when the opportunity to sign with AEW came, and it came like out of nowhere.
~ Lance Archer
Certain celebs manage to worm their way out of the spotlight, and I won't stand for that.
~ James Acaster
Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.
~ Patty Griffin
I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?
~ David Sedaris
There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
~ Aaron Spelling
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
I can't bring out something I've already worn. I want to make sure I don't look down. I want people to say, 'Man, he looks good'.
~ Craig Sager