Quotes About Attention

Never show unfinished work.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

I believe that one can indeed work on two or more tasks at once, but in ways yet to be understood.

The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

That's the interesting thing about writing. You can start late, you can be ignorant of things, and yet, if you work hard and pay attention you can do a good job of it.

Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.

The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

[Warren Beatty] will sometimes spend hours on a very small detail to make sure he gets it right. After the kind of work that he's made, he certainly doesn't have to be doing that.

It's nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.

I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!

I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

I need to get back to work," Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. "Killer skirt. Deadly legs.

Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter.

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.