Quotes About Attention

If you ever need to quickly get the attention of a roomful of American musicians, "A-one!" will do it every time. Warning: do not use this command frivolously.

Ian's discomfort was followed by a memory of a conversation he once had with Aunt Lillian about the indignities she had suffered as a young woman from the attention of men. He had not until this moment considered what it must have actually felt like.

If I had something valuable, I'd keep it in my pocket where I could keep an eye on it," Michael said. "Sure," said Wendy. "With all the holes you have in your pockets, that would be a real safe place.

Time was when my little feet were the only ones welcome in the establishment, from the chorus girls' dressing room to the owners' penthouse. However, the newcomer—who has no obvious attractions other than the dubious ability to scream like a harem of Siamese in heat at odd hours of the night—is the center of an epidemic of cooing that leaves myself cold.

If your loved ones only get your attention when they are in crisis, pretty soon you've got a lot of crises on your hands, especially with kids.

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

Some people, it's like they care more about their status updates than their actual lives.

It's gonna be hard to break you, this hungry public part of you that wants to be noticed and observed. You need an escort, Beck, especially if you want to dress like a fucking whore.

When people show you who they are, it is your job to pay attention.

I know I can be stubborn about technology. I hate the name. I hate the clear intention to shrink our attention span even more. But I do it. I go on fucking TikTok.

you're still talking and fuck, it's hard to listen when I can smell your body wash.

Henderson promoted an idea that we could all be the center of attention all the time. But if everyone is onstage, who's in the audience?

Full of disclaimers, you're like a warning label on a pack of cigarettes.

I am sick of missing out on your words. What if you said something important? What if you revealed something to me and I missed it?

cowed by the awe of a hundred thousand voices clamoring to be heard above the din of reverent quiet.

I always look at the list of viewers and do you know what it was like to look at that list and see your name less and less?' FUCKING INSTAGRAM AND NO ONE SHOULD LOOK AT THAT FUCKING LIST.

Everyone here wants so badly to be watched, noticed. And the upside is that the desire to be watched is a blindfold.

historians rarely emphasize the tremendous importance that [Marie Antoinette's] public attached to what she was wearing at each step along the way.

He'd seen that absent look from her dozens of times in London. She thought herself invisible, and was not. Not to him. This was the second time he'd mentioned marriage to her. The second time she heard nothing but his words.

Please!" I stop my pacing, glare at him. "Is that all you can think about at a time like this?" Gabriel rolls up on one elbow and smiles at me. "I'm a guy. It's what I think about all the time.

Wake up! Keep waking up! Wake up more and more often!

Take a look at this there's no caking in the corners

You could see that it only wanted some attention to be beautiful again.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.