Quotes About Attention

I make sure that I'm not focused on other things when I'm spending time with my children.

I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous; they judge other people without knowing the whole story. They want all the attention, and they're mean spirited.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

My parents were fantastic. I was an only child, so I had a lot of love and too much attention. I don't think I was spoilt. My mother was quite a disciplinarian, but I did have a lot of attention and quite a lot of pressure to do well at whatever I was doing.

Because let's be clear about this: birthdays are for children. It's the one day of the year where they get properly spoilt and are the centre of attention, and they get the presents they really, really want.

Even to this day, I read things in real time, you know, I don't - like, as if it's being spoken. I can't skim stuff in ways that I know certain people can. I have to sort of hear it in my head to be able to read it.

All these years, people have spoken good and bad things about me, but I always end up being discussed.

When I'm in drag, I don't always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.

I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.