Quotes About Attention

You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Happy Birthday, Mr Presidenttttt

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

See every crack, every detail. I learned to really see and not just look at my business.

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Let every man mind his own business.

The record business. It's exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won't take care of you.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

The urgent can drown out the important.

Business neglected is business lost.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.