Quotes About Attention

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

I get free meals in Cincinnati restaurants, girls scream when I just walk into a room.

As incredible as television has become, it often feels like a sideshow in what has become a daily three-ring media circus.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

It wasn't very easy getting used to being famous. Everybody stared at me in the supermarket and on the street. I think my life changed, for sure.

People sorta know my face, but I can still go out to the supermarket, and nobody pays much attention.

In the days of 'EastEnders,' I couldn't go into a pub or supermarket, as people would recognise me and follow me home.

Belarus is not a superpower, but we pay a lot of attention to sports.

I was the kind of kid who loved singing. I loved rapping; I loved attention. But for me, it was more about chasing the dream of being a superstar because of the town I was from and because of what I'd seen.

Today, you can gain a bunch of followers doing a dance in a cute bikini, and suddenly, you're a superstar. Or you could just be a beautiful girl posting pictures of yourself and get discovered that way.

The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.

With its onslaught of never-ending choices, never-ending supply of relationships and obligations, the attention economy bulldozes the natural shape of our physical and psychological limits and turns impulses into bad habits.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

I have some friends who love to perform and wish they were getting the attention I am getting. But that doesn't stop them from supporting me.

There is no doubt that Boulder was a supportive and open-door community well before TechStars ever existed. But one of the things that I'm most proud of is that TechStars has provided a real focal point for this sort of activity and has brought attention to just how impactful one community can be when it works together.

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.