Quotes About Attention

If only a few games are televised and you don't have a follow-up, like no live coverage of the Sri Lanka series after the Australia series, where we did so well, things will not improve.

In the beginning of my career I had to deal with the fact that since I was the only woman in the band, the singer and the face of the band, I obviously got the most of the attention of the public everywhere I went.

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.

I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.

It's better to be incognito because otherwise everyone is talking to you because they know you - and you can't concentrate on the training because everyone is talking to you.

One of the very best things about being a coach or student-athlete at UCLA is if you need medical attention, you won't find any better place in the country than at the incomparable UCLA Medical Center.

l'imperfezione va oltre. E' tolleranza, rispetto dell'usato e attenzione ai segni del tempo. E' capacita' di badare alla merce, e non alla confezione.

Attention is a drug. There's no going back.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

In the United States of Entertainment there is no greater sin than to bore the audience

Zegas began where Ford left off: with insinuations about Leslie's sexual proclivities. "Did she know the word coming?" he asked. "Did she know what jerked him off meant?" "Not unless someone explained them to her. I wouldn't expect her to use those words with me," Carol said. "But if she heard words in a sentence, she'd parrot it back. She'd get attention like a young child using the word doo-doo.

Even at that early age, Leslie loved to play in Cartaret Park. As much as any of the neighborhood boys, she was at home there; giggling, she'd roll in the grass for hours or climb to the top of the jungle gym in a great scrambling burst of energy. What set her apart in those first years of her life was her almost unslakable thirst for attention and affection. A smile, a pat, a wink, a wave, she loved it, she reveled in it. Most children want attention: Leslie craved it.

You know people. Most of them don't hear anything. Those who hear - don't listen. A few who listen - don't understand. And those who could understand... they don't care.

She protested she'd rather freeze than wear the coat Lily had bought her. It was too big and it had a fur collar. 'It sounds rather glamorous,' he said. 'That's as maybe,' she retorted. 'It's too much trouble. You have to paint your face if you wear a fur. It draws attention.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving.

Proficiency is not benevolence. There is an art to being present.

If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

I always know I'm talking to a gardener or a photographer if at any given time, they know where the light is.

As a side benefit, this cognitive shift to a different-from-usual mode of thinking results in a marvelous state of being, a highly focused, singularly attentive, deeply engaging, wordless, timeless, productive, and mentally restorative state.

You can learn a lot if you stop spinning and start listening.

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness