Quotes About Attention

The shelf life of a seventh-year State of the Union address is about five minutes. Presidents can propose stuff. They're probably not likely to get it done.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

You really do learn every day with every dog; they are all so unique and different. But if you're patient and you understand where they're coming from, and if you are consistent, they will be fine. They teach you to give your full attention.

Clothes that make people look twice, that's what makes me feel good - where it is something that I know is unique and different.

Narcissists - people with an inflated self-concept and a strong sense of uniqueness and superiority - seek attention and affirmation on Facebook.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there.

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care.

I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.