Quotes About Attention

I had zero interest in going to college. I used my GI Bill to help pay for training. I hated doing group projects or deal with people in the class who aren't paying attention. That made me go insane. I was looking for any way out. My sanity was fighting.

I know that instructional time is a zero-sum game, but if we want kids to do well academically, it's hard to imagine that happening if they don't have some control over their attention.

Facebook has created a rash of mental zombies in a meme-feeding frenzy.

Directing is a lot of fun, but you have to be on your toes every minute. If you zone out for even a second, you'll miss something and things will get screwed up. And here's a little secret that I'm going to let out of the bag: That is not the case with acting.

I find it really difficult to turn my head off. I find it difficult to zone out.

When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.

I have made multiple videos telling fans not to come to our house. I feel like a zoo animal.

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

The thing that I don't like is the selfie when people turn their back to the stage. I'm playing my heart out, I put everything that I have into my performance. If someone turns their back to me like a zoo animal... that drives me absolutely bananas.

I am surprised nothing has been made of the fact that astronaut Neil Armstrong carried no sidearms when he landed on the moon.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

The whole motivation for any performer is 'Look at me, Ma.'

Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

The art of publicity is a black art.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears.

It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

When you go to buy use your eyes, not your ears.