Quotes About Attention

viewer has to be hit on the head with the same ad seven or eight times before it begins to register.

The notion that too much information can be a distraction is off the mark. The quantity of information is irrelevant; it is the relevance of any quantity that matters.

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

Feedback) People become addicted to it. That's why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space.

The fact is if we followed the history of every little country in this world-in its dramatic as well as its quiet times- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or to apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming. Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

She loves to make a fuss, but she is rarely very attached to the fuss she makes.

I AM NOT A WAITER. I HAVE BEEN A STUDENT, A SCIENTIST, A SOLDIER, MY WIFE IS CALLED ALSANA, WE LIVE IN EAST LONDON BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE NORTH. I AM A MUSLIM BUT ALLAH HAS FORSAKEN ME OR I HAVE FORSAKEN ALLAH, I'M NOT SURE. I HAVE A FRIEND—ARCHIE—AND OTHERS. I AM FORTY-NINE BUT WOMEN STILL TURN IN THE STREET. SOMETIMES. (3.81)

It's claimed that Americans viewed twelve times as many Web pages about Miley Cyrus as about the gas attack in Syria.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn't time for anything else

This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him." —Brendan Francis

Belding hesitated and looked

We must dress to make other women jealous and to attract men.

The present was too urgent to let the past intrude.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

If the audience gets to see anything in abundance, they lose interest.

It's hard academically for an ADD sufferer - but, doing something they love, they can be the most focused person of all.

I appreciate some of the attention and the accolades, but I typically shy away from it.

If no one is watching, it doesn't matter what else you are achieving, you are not successful.

If a person feels like 'They're not acknowledging me'... That's a very important feeling in life, even if it's not romantic.

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.