Quotes About Attention

We take better care of our smartphones than we do of ourselves - the phones are always recharged!

Our phones have created what I like to call SADD - Social Attention Deficit Disorder.

As lawmakers, our job is to listen to our constituents. If our phones are ringing off the hook with people demanding to know where we stand on an issue, we pay attention.

But every so often we'll get to this place where everyone in the room is fully focused on what's happening. You see it happens in sports sometimes, when there's a really important moment. It's a great thing when you can get to those places, when you look up you don't see a bunch of phones out.

Even when people are watching a movie in a multiplex, they insult the film by constantly checking their phones and flashing lights. At times, even when the audience is being told to not flash their cameras, they do, and you can't do anything because it's a habit for them and they can't stop. I don't want that for myself.

In Naples, each time I go out people want to take my photo or ask for autographs.

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

I find it funny to look at people who are people-watching, and, don't get me wrong, I like to people-watch, too. But it's an interesting thing when people on the street just stop and ask you, 'Are you Coco? Can I take a photo of you?'

If I were talking to someone, I'd look at their eyes, not at the blemish on the side of their face. But as soon as you open up that photo on a 30-inch monitor, you'd say, 'Oh my gosh, where did that come from?'

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

I learned early on that if I was to get attention, I would have to be charming. Even the models I've photographed are often like that. Some of them are not beautiful. But, if you catch them in the right light, they glow.

It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.

I know when I go out and wear a pretty dress and get photographed, I'm going to be in the press, which will help with my business.

When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.

Attention from the photographers is part of my life and I think the best thing is to learn to deal with it.

I hate red-carpet photographs!

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.

There are people who want photographs and autographs when they meet me.

I am not against cricket, but it is dominating this country. All other games are finished, because the media shows cricket 24 hours a day, the papers are full of cricketers' photographs.