Quotes About Attention

The whole world is sick...we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.

And we want car wrecks. We say we don't. But we love them. To look is to love. A thousand people drive past the statue of David. Two hundred look. A thousand people drive past a car wreck. A thousand look.

Livingston: What is the key to excellence for an engineer? Wozniak: You have to be very diligent. You have to check every little detail. You have to be so careful that you haven't left something out. You have to think harder and deeper than you normally would.

They say if your ears are burning then someone is talking about you. Is that true? Because I have a question about what it means if it's a different body part.

I'm sorry. I had the volume at a very high level, and the world sort of disappeared.

Julie Seagle If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.

He had wanted to say to her then, You could unpack some boxes. You could sweep the attic. You could retouch the paint on the bathroom windowsill, and after you do it you could warn me so that I don't put my watch on it.

Part of the way that I work is to observe.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. You're like, "I'm right here! I'm a person! I'm interesting, too!"

It's very easy to get caught up in - there's a hype going on now that I haven't seen in years, and it's actually more about press than it is about an actor's work or what films they've been in.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

For the big stuff to work credibly, you've got to get the little stuff absolutely right.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.