300 Quotes on Attention

• Amidst silent vanities, the whisper of a leaf embodies an alert mindfulness training unseen landscapes teaching rooted truths beyond season and stretch of time.

  Author: Aanya Mandala

• Within the rapture of stillness, unspoken words embed the deeper hues of understanding that often escape the clamor of daily chatter.

  Author: Evelyn Whitney

• Digital minimalism invites us to clarify what truly deserves our attention amidst the pleasing clutter of the online world.

  Author: Elsa Renner

• The greatest fear is not being judged but rather being ignored

  Author: Maya Angelou

• The power of silence can sometimes demand more attention than the loudest of words.

  Author: Emily White

• Don't be afraid to stand out in a crowd; it's the peacocks that catch the most eyes.

  Author: Natasha Rivera

• What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have.

  Author: David Zucker

• As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

  Author: John Zorn

• The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

  Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

• Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.

  Author: Cole Younger

• The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.

  Author: Cale Yarborough

• I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

  Author: Al Yankovic

• It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.

  Author: Jennifer Wyatt

• But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?

  Author: Francis Wright

• The constant attention is what is so difficult.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

  Author: Reese Witherspoon

• Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

  Author: Andrew Wiles

• The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

  Author: Laura Wilder

• Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

  Author: Bradley Whitford

• Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

  Author: Minor White

• Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

  Author: Richard Whately

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  Author: Rachel Weisz

• They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.

  Author: Bob Weir

• We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

  Author: Allen Weinstein

• Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

  Author: Simone Weil

• The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

  Author: Simone Weil

• In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

  Author: Andrew Weil

• If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

  Author: David Walliams

• I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

  Author: David Walliams

• It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.

  Author: Jim Wallace

• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

  Author: Alice Walker

• We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

  Author: Alexander Volkov

• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  Author: Don Vliet

• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  Author: Fay Vincent

• You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

  Author: Milo Ventimiglia

• The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

  Author: Simone Veil

• One person cooking at home cannot pay attention to too many things. If a woman makes three dishes, she will get nervous on the first, the second will suffer and the third will be a disaster.

  Author: Rene Veaux

• Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

  Author: George Vancouver

• Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

  Author: Ninette Valois

• 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.

  Author: Ninette Valois

• Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

  Author: Ville Valo

• Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

  Author: Holly Valance

• There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

  Author: Verne Troyer

• Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

  Author: David Trimble

• I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous.

  Author: Johnny Thunders

• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.

  Author: John Thompson

• What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

  Author: Terence

• If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.

  Author: Benmont Tench

• Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

  Author: Cathy Tempelsman

• Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

  Author: James Taylor

• These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

  Author: Lewis Tappan

• Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

  Author: Thomas Sydenham

• The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

  Author: Charles Swindoll

• Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

  Author: Willie Sutton

• We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

  Author: William Sumner

• I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

  Author: Donna Summer

• I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.

  Author: Lusia Strus

• I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

  Author: Erich Stroheim

• All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• 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.

  Author: Michael Strahan

• Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

  Author: John Stockwell

• I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

  Author: James Stockdale

• I think I'm a focus for international attention.

  Author: Sting

• Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.

  Author: David Stiers

• Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• 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.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong.

  Author: George Stephanopoulos

• Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

  Author: Charles Stanley

• Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

  Author: Konstantin Stanislavisky

• I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

  Author: John Spratt

• Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

  Author: Terry Southern

• In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

  Author: Abdolkarim Soroush

• Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

  Author: Aaron Sorkin

• Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

  Author: Susan Sontag

• I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

  Author: Samuel Smiles

• I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

  Author: Joey Skaggs

• The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

  Author: Edith Sitwell

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  Author: Nancy Sinatra

• Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.

  Author: Frank Sinatra

• What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

  Author: Herbert Simon

• James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

  Author: Gene Simmons

• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  Author: Charles Simmons

• Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

  Author: Ron Silver

• Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic.

  Author: Jean Sibelius

• When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

  Author: Mark Shields

• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

  Author: Ariel Sharon

• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

  Author: Tom Shales

• A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

  Author: Anne Seward

• Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

  Author: David Selznick

• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  Author: Earl Scruggs

• I have a short attention span.

  Author: Tony Scott

• People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

  Author: Ridley Scott

• Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

  Author: Ashley Scott

• In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

  Author: Pepper Schwartz

• All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

  Author: Charles Schwab

• This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

  Author: Stanley Schmidt

• People in New York pay attention to national issues - a huge percentage of people.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly.

  Author: Greta Scacchi

• The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

  Author: Diane Sawyer

• Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

  Author: Nathalie Sarraute

• Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

  Author: Paul Sarbanes

• My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.

  Author: Kim Sam

• It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

  Author: Tim Ryan

• I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.

  Author: Robert Ryan

• 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.

  Author: David Russell

• I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

  Author: Otis Rush

• We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

  Author: Warren Rudman

• I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

  Author: John Rowland

• I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

  Author: Brandon Routh

• You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

  Author: David Roth

• It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

  Author: Robert Ross

• A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

  Author: Charles Rosen

• I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

  Author: Rebecca Romijn

• I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

  Author: Dennis Rodman

• If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

  Author: Julia Roberts

• Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

  Author: Bridget Riley

• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  Author: Patricia Richardson

• Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

  Author: Patricia Richardson

• So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• But when I went on the stage to do a show, I would put on makeup because I felt that it enhanced my act; it drew attention to what I was doing.

  Author: Little Richard

• Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

  Author: Little Richard

• I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

  Author: Little Richard

• When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.

  Author: Claudio Reyna

• I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

  Author: Frederick Reines

• Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.

  Author: Frederick Reines

• A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

  Author: Robert Reich

• The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

  Author: Keanu Reeves

• It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

  Author: Robert Redford

• You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• A lot of what acting is paying attention.

  Author: Nancy Reagan

• If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

  Author: Robert Quillen

• My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

  Author: Philip Pullman

• One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

  Author: Paul Prudhomme

• If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

  Author: Annie Proulx

• I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility.

  Author: Lisa Presley

• Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out.

  Author: Michael Powell

• Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

  Author: Mark Poster

• Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

  Author: John Portman

• The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

  Author: Michael Pollan

• Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

  Author: John Polkinghorne

• We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

  Author: John Pistole

• The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

  Author: Zebulon Pike

• Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

  Author: Elizabeth Phelps

• If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

  Author: Tom Peters

• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

  Author: Thomas Peters

• Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

  Author: Bernadette Peters

• I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

  Author: Matthew Perry

• A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

  Author: Alan Perlis

• It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

  Author: Alan Perlis

• The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

  Author: Robert Peel

• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

  Author: Minnie Pearl

• I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

  Author: Danica Patrick

• In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

  Author: Sara Paretsky

• We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

  Author: Carl Paladino

• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  Author: Camille Paglia

• Lady Limelight is a jealous lady. She wants all of your attention. You don't have any time to think of anything else but Lady Limelight, because pretty soon that light will be shinning on somebody else. So you better do it while you can.

  Author: Buck Owens

• No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

  Author: Richard Owen

• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  Author: Jack Osbourne

• As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

  Author: John Olver

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  Author: Barbara Olson

• To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

  Author: Mary Oliver

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  Author: Hakeem Olajuwon

• The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

  Author: Ben Okri

• It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

  Author: David Ogilvy

• A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

  Author: David Ogilvy

• What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

  Author: Flannery O'Connor

• During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

  Author: Paul Nurse

• I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.

  Author: Chris Noth

• You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.

  Author: Charlie Norwood

• Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

  Author: Brandy Norwood

• Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

  Author: Larry Norman

• But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

  Author: Juice Newton

• Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

  Author: Bob Newhart

• If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.

  Author: Richard Neuhaus

• What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

  Author: Graham Nelson

• It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

  Author: Kathy Najimy

• The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

  Author: Robert Musil

• Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

  Author: Nana Mouskouri

• All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

  Author: Kate Moss

• So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

  Author: Emily Mortimer

• I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

  Author: Van Morrison

• No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

  Author: Christopher Morley

• Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

  Author: Mary Moore

• The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.

  Author: John Moody

• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

  Author: Dwight Moody

• The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.

  Author: Mary Montagu

• What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

  Author: Luc Montagnier

• I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

  Author: Maria Monk

• Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.

  Author: Joni Mitchell

• The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

  Author: George Minot

• 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.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist.

  Author: Jonathan Miller

• Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

  Author: Henry Miller

• He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

  Author: Arthur Miller

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  Author: Edna Millay

• Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

  Author: Mark Millar

• I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

  Author: Jason Mewes

• I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.

  Author: Jason Mewes

• There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

  Author: Jason Mewes

• Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

  Author: Thomas Menino

• I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

  Author: Terry McMillan

• I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

  Author: Vince McMahon

• But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.

  Author: Robert McChesney

• If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

  Author: John McCarthy

• The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.

  Author: John McCain

• I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate.

  Author: James McAvoy

• I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail.

  Author: Peter Matthiessen

• You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

  Author: Judith Martin

• After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

  Author: Rudolph Marcus

• Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

  Author: Thomas Malthus

• We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.

  Author: Nicolas Malebranche

• The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know.

  Author: Tobey Maguire

• Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

  Author: Patrick MacGill

• My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

  Author: Lorna Luft

• We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

  Author: Rob Lowe

• My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.

  Author: Pierre Loti

• Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera.

  Author: Nia Long

• Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

  Author: Jeremy London

• Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.

  Author: Arto Lindsay

• People keep pushing me to be the center of attention... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

  Author: Gong Li

• Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

  Author: Meriwether Lewis

• I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.

  Author: Philip Levine

• Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

  Author: Eliphas Levi

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  Author: Barbara Lee

• To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

  Author: Joshua Lederberg

• When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

  Author: Michael LeBoeuf

• I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

  Author: James Laughlin

• For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

  Author: Serge Lang

• I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

  Author: Diane Lane

• The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

  Author: Mary Landrieu

• Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

  Author: Michael Landon

• I think there was a sense that the impact was being lost because the audience was so familiar with the form. You combine that with people's attention spans, which are clearly conditioned to be shorter now, and there's a need to vary the paradigm.

  Author: Jim Lampley

• We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

  Author: Jim Lampley

• Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

  Author: Anne Lamott

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  Author: Wally Lamb

• I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

  Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  Author: Lactantius

• Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.

  Author: Chiaki Kuriyama

• Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

  Author: Chiaki Kuriyama

• I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

  Author: Barbara Kruger

• Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

  Author: Barbara Kruger

• A little bit of attention can go a long way.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

  Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  Author: Karl Kraus

• I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

  Author: Anna Kournikova

• You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.

  Author: Leo Kottke

• The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

  Author: Alexis Korner

• With Guard and Reserve units, you can end up with a lot of people from one part of the country dying in one day, and that gets people's attention.

  Author: Lawrence Korb

• I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

  Author: Nigel Kneale

• I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

  Author: Alexander Kluge

• The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

  Author: Lawrence Klein

• Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

  Author: Calvin Klein

• When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

  Author: Allen Klein

• The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

  Author: Allen Klein

• When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

  Author: Allen Klein

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