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Quotes About Attention

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.
~ Doug Cooper, Outside In
And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.
~ Rita Rudner
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
~ Groucho Marx
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
~ George Bernard Shaw
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
~ Steven Wright
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.
~ Christopher Paolini
A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.
~ Bob Monkhouse
I'd rather hug Magic Johnson after he rolled around in barbed wire.
~ Jim Norton
I actually pay careful attention to that sort of thing - infusing humor into my films - because that's how important I think humor is.
~ Park Chan-wook
Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
~ Marcel Achard
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
~ Kin Hubbard
If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
~ Steven Wright
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
~ A.A. Milne
If you are tuning in just for the show, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
~ Adam Carolla
Quality requires your Presence.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.
~ Steven Wright
It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?
~ Ilona Andrews, On the Edge
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
You say you're sick and tired of hearing about me? I've got news for you: I'M sick and tired of hearing about me.
~ Ellen DeGeneres