Quotes About Attention

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

A writer's work is to witness things.

There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.

I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I'm not going to complain about the fact that people are paying attention to my work. I suppose that wouldn't be fair.

Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.

Meditate. Inspire others. Spend time by yourself. Manage your career properly. Work at something constructive, that doesn't injure others, and put your full attention into it.

Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery.

If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.

Women in New York have to work much harder to compete with the supermodels for attention.

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

If I need to steal from a difficult spot, I like to use a 'bottom-up' attention strategy to direct the focus.

It's a bad strategy to have an identity-based strategy on the left. De-emphasizing identity all-around would help our politics because we would have to pay more attention to the issues. We may have to pay more attention to class if we didn't have these self-defeating identity agendas.

When you make a movie like 'Straw Dogs,' your goal is to have people's eyes remain glued to the screen. It serves you no purpose to turn away from the screen.