Quotes About Attention

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I finally got help after a tennis match with my wife. I couldn't hear her across the net. She finally smashed her racket against a rock. That got my attention. I didn't know I was going deaf, I thought people were talking too softly.

Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does it matter a lot?

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

I have been a soldier and a commander for many years and know how to differentiate between things - not to be busy all the time with the most sensitive matters and to give everything its due attention without having the issues that cause concern to constantly be troubling or worrisome.

We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we're distracted by routine habits.

Stateless people are hidden. During the 2011 refugee crises, it was obvious that people were fleeing Somalia and Libya - there was a lot of international attention. Statelessness goes undetected because stateless people are in legal limbo and are afraid to show up.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.

Life is about now - some things are just too important to miss.

Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.

Even 150 years of the first war of Independence was marked with a series of programs, but somehow the Jallianwala Bagh incident hasn't been given the attention it deserves.

Ruining someone else's life for attention or revenge should also come with a price.

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

Some seek the limelight and some hold the light in place

Pay attention. Be alert. Don't be in denial. Learn

Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl's laugh grabbed my attention.

It isnt for wantof something to say--something to tell you--something you should know--but to detain you--keep you from going--feeling myself hereas long as you are--as long as you are