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Quotes About Attention

I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.
~ Eliot Paulina Sumner
I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.
~ Elvis Presley
Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.
~ Frederick Busch
Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.
~ Frederick Lenz
Meditation is a very powerful time and you are very psychic. It is most important to not allow your attention, your mind, to wander.
~ Frederick Lenz
I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.
~ Gemma Ward
Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?
~ George Carlin
Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?
~ Greg Behrendt
I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
~ Henry Rollins
I'm just a guy. I get treated like I'm famous but I don't take it seriously. I take the time people take out to check me out very, very seriously.
~ Henry Rollins
They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.
~ Hillary Clinton
There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.
~ Ian Bogost
Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"
~ Ian Mckellen
She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.
~ Ilona Andrews
They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.
~ Isaac Asimov
Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
~ J. I. Packer
When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.
~ James Bryce
Before I realized I had faults, I was already joking about it, to get attention. By the time I went to high school, I had a pretty practiced routine down.
~ Jason Mulgrew
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention.
~ Jesse James Garrett
You're lucky if I watch 10 minutes of wrestling a month. Most of the time, I channel surf, and I lose interest after a few minutes.
~ Jesse Ventura
I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.
~ Joel Stein
Children aren't fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.
~ John Bradshaw