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Attention Quotes
"Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive."
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"Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos."
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"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."
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"There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes."
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"So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia."
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"But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention."
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"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
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"I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me."
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"To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing."
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"At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare."
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"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
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"I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level."
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"I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it."
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"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation."
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"You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing."
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"And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well."
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"Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more."
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"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
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"You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place."
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"The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it."
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"The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention."
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"That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction."
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"Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence."
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"It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers."
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"Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale."
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"Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them."
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"I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes."
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"Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful."
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"I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something."
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"All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention."
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