Quotes About Attention

All I have to do is walk into any crowd in the United States, I'll bet you, and say, 'G-rr-r-r-e-a-a-at!' and everyone would turn around and say, 'Tony!'

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we're not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it's too late - you can't go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.

I think at times, too many people focus on just little things and not focus on what the whole question and the whole answer is.

I think people make way too much of ratings.

Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.

We are getting way too much info in the cockpit. Sometimes I switch off the display in my car!

You have good form, bad form, get criticised, get bigged up. You go through spells of trying to find out how much to listen to, what not to pay too much attention to.

I'm not one to be paying too much attention to what another dude's doing.

I have a certain amount of difficulty dealing with too much limelight.

If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.

In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one shouldn't pay too much attention to what Hawking was saying because he was a celebrity but not a specialist of elementary particle theory.

I now hate actors that blink too much on screen. When people blink, I turn the movie off. So I don't blink at all.

I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in.

I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get and capture people's attention.

The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time.

When you are competing for attention and eyeballs, articulating value and evoking possibility and vision can be powerful tools.