Quotes About Attention

Billy No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll.

He'll get tired of chasing someone who doesn't chase back!

4. You hear his voice in a crowd more than any other.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

This is true emergence, the wisdom of crowds—like flocking, it represents group members making choices together. The bigger message of the nomenclature evolution was exactly what I had been telling new Twitter employees. It was our job to pay attention, to look for patterns, and to be open to the idea that we didn't have all the answers.

An uninterested spectator sees nothing; or, what is worse, sees wrongly.

Life gets old very quickly, until of course they tell you your number is up, which is when you start paying attention to the precious miracle you are about to lose.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.

I always see to the dogs first and leave the cats and the occasional birds and rabbits and hamsters for later. It isn't that I play favorites, it's just that dogs are needier than other pets. Leave a dog alone for very long and it'll start going a little nuts. Cats, on the other hand, try to give you the impression that they didn't even notice you were gone. "Oh, were you out?" they'll say, "I didn't notice." Then they'll raise their tails to show you their little puckered anuses and walk away.

Ellen Degeneres: "There's a curfew for all the people on American Idol and you didn't pay attention to it, ever." Blake: "Yeah, why?" Ellen: "Why? That's my question.

Now we realize that time is our most valuable resource, and every minute we spend in one of these meetings just sitting there is time wasted.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Some people have suggested that we have some young male models on the show. But I think that's a terrible idea. I don't want some young guy back here attracting all the attention. I want people looking at me.

Why should I pay attention to prices? I can't win.

Today it's just "the Sun." Familiarity is the enemy of awe, and for the most part people walk the busy streets with no upward glance. In fact, one of the common bits of advice about the Sun is that we shouldn't look at it.

Don't let your mind wander, it's to small to be out by itself.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

The point is this: our brands are very important to us marketers and very unimportant to most consumers. Please read that again.

Only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird.

Vibrations never lie. A person could be saying one thing and yet, thinking another. Get to the point where you pay closer attention to the vibrations you are receiving rather than the words you are hearing. Intuition is one of the most valuable mental tools you possess. Begin to consciously use it. Your rewards will be worth the effort.

The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.

The scarcest resource in journalism now is attention span.

He had this great curiosity. If there was a car wreck and Walter saw it, it would be like the first car wreck he ever saw in his life.