Quotes About Attention

Habits are undeniably useful tools, relieving us of the need to run a complex mental operation every time we're confronted with a new task or situation. Yet they also relieve us of the need to stay awake to the world: to attend, feel, think, and then act in a deliberate manner.

We have a tendency to assume that what we can see is the important thing to look at.

I was always causing trouble in school. Doing impressions of Bart Simpson, interrupting class - I liked the attention and entertaining people.

A huge part of what we do as actors is learning to ignore the camera, as if it's not even there, while simultaneously being very aware of the camera and what it's capturing, because you can give the best performance of your life, but if you do it with the back of your head facing the camera, it's going to get cut from the movie.

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.

No doubt many people working in race relations sincerely want to make things better. But by constantly drawing attention to race and policing ordinary behavior, they risk making things worse.

The more projects you do, the more actors you meet, the more people you meet, it's harder and harder to give your heart and your complete attention or absolute sincerity to that person.

I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

Being a singer now I have to get all fussy... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.

When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

When I was younger I was interested in fame. Lots of kids want to be actors and singers and stuff and it's fun to be recognized and fun to have pictures taken of you.

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

There's always expectation with a Lady A single.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.

Every single person who is a member of our party deserves to have certainty. They deserve to know that my attention and focus is where it belongs.

There's only a certain amount of times in my life where I'm going to get to experience every single person directing their energy and focus on you, screaming at you.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

There's a lot of thought that goes into every single thing I wear.

I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.

'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.