Quotes About Attention

Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.

You can never overlook a guy.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

It's easier for fans to consume one or two songs at a time. Not everybody buys records, so some songs can get overlooked.

I really want to demonstrate I'm not to be overlooked anymore.

I know I'm going to lose a lot of readers over this, and I don't care: 'Garfield' is overrated. I have always felt this, even as a child. That dumb man and his dumb, mean cat have gotten more of our attention than they deserve.

Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.

Honestly, man, I'm not somebody who wants the celebrity. I could really care less about that stuff. I know everyone says it, but I get overwhelmed by it all sometimes.

I remember being about 14 when I started wearing shorts and heels. I hated the attention I got. I found it overwhelming.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

each switch imposes a direct penalty of a bit more than twenty minutes of lost concentration.

What seemed to be happening was that the change itself wasn't as important as the act of changing. People were charmed by differentness, they liked the attention, they were intrigued by novelty.

Usually, we ignore the present moment and, by doing so, we take away its power.

Wat is de duurtijd van een boek in tijden die zich van boeken lijken af te wenden?

I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

Eventually, television got louder and faster, and closed up the spaces between sentences that used to indicate human thought was going on.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

We knew the massive amount of media attention the Elizabeth Smart case had generated was in part because the Smarts were an affluent, well-connected Caucasian family. However, kidnapping crosses all boundaries and all children deserve the same resources.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

This is the reason the whole 'keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel, use the hands-free handset' idea is a silly thing," Simons said. "Having your eyes on the road doesn't do any good unless your attention is on the road too.