Quotes About Attention

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.

There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you're mine.

No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.

I click my teeth together every time I want to take a mental picture of something, like, "Wow, what a beautiful sunset!" Slam your teeth together.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

The more their attention is directed to how well they're doing, the less engaged they tend to be with what they're doing.

Be careful," said Mark as Max picked up the potatoes Brandon T. unearthed with his hoe. "We don't want any fingers mixed in with our spuds.

Hey, everybody, Jerry Maguire's here.

He pushed the steelframed glasses up on his perfect nose. "I don't pay much attention to the selfhelp movement, but even I've heard of you. Is the doctorate real or phony?" "I have a very real Ph.D. in psychology, which qualifies me to make a fairly accurate diagnosis: "You're a jerk. Now, leave me alone.

llevo años observando que cuanto más indiferente se muestra un hombre, más interesada se vuelve la mujer.

She stopped. It was as if her mind tripped on something. Her eye was caught by a dish-towel in the middle of the kitchen table. Slowly she moved toward the table. One half of it was wiped clean, the other half messy. Her eyes made a slow, almost unwilling turn to the bucket of sugar and the half empty bag beside it. Things begun—and not finished.

Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.

No one's brain is different enough to make constant interruptions, distractions, and task-switching an optimal environment in which to function. No one's.