Quotes About Attention

There are those who think that the private lives of candidates are none of our business. But when those candidates ask us for our attention as they explain their plans for how they will represent us, no one should be surprised at our interest in how they represent themselves.

When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.

Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

It surprises me how quickly the press likes to reach conclusions about my life.

I got the most surprising reaction was when I had bleached blonde hair with a black stripe at the bottom - all of the ends were black. That one got the most attention - good and bad.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.

It is a bit surreal when I'm out and people are having a look or staring or wanting selfies.

I never thought the media would be interested in me - this is very surreal.

The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

It's not his step, it's the back of his lap he ought to watch, I said.

People most often don't see what is right before them.

You learn something new every day, if you just stop to pay attention.

When you're at an inn and someone in the room above kicks off a boot before going to bed, you hear the first one hit the floor and you wait until you hear the second before your mind can return fully to what it was doing before.

One view is that privacy consists of 'limited accessibility' – a cluster of three related but independent components: secrecy: information known about an individual; anonymity: attention paid to an individual; and solitude: physical access to an individual.

Of course women's walking is often construed as performance rather than transport, with the implication that women walk not to see but to be seen, not for their own experience but for that of a male audience, which means that they are asking for whatever attention they receive.

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

Stepping into the smell of a long-abandoned aple crop, Cameron called towards the house, hoping to catch his mother's attention in the window where she would be sitting working

all these other little ringlet-headed girls and break into a dance. Make everyone look at me, only me! But you have to stand in line. All we're supposed to do is stand up here and

Negative attention desecrates our altar. But we women have been giving ourselves negative attention so consistently, and for so long, that we do not even see it as a problem.

Then Miss Turner noticed Rosie was a bit hot and flushed. Probably only the start of a summer cold.