Attention Quotes

• Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Attention
  • Chicago
  • Squad

• All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • Different
  • Attention

• I do feel very honored to get all this attention. Basically, what I need to do is to go out there and perform. That's what I'm intending to do.

  

  Masahiro Tanaka
  • Attention

• You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Time
  • Support
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • World
  • Believe
  • Attention

• I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Question

• How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Attention
  • Preparation
  • Calling

• The first year was kind of hard for me. There was just too much attention, too much going on, and I really just wanted to focus on basketball.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Basketball

• I don't look into myself too much. I don't think I'm shy so much as a better listener than I am a speaker. I just really don't wish for attention.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Attention
  • Wish

• I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place.

  

  Monica Seles
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Reason

• In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Artist

• I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • Attention

• So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

  

  Lee H. Hamilton
  • Attention
  • Ignore

• AC/DC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time... I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.

  

  Rico Love
  • Music
  • Favorite
  • Queen

• 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.

  

  Arto Lindsay
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• Korean nationalism has not only energized the North’s march to nuclear armament, but also exerted a growing appeal on people in the South - the ideological discourse of which republic has received even less attention than the North’s. The average American knows only that in the 1980s liberal democracy replaced authoritarianism here in South Korea.

  

  Brian Reynolds Myers
  • People
  • American
  • Growing

• The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Energy
  • Attention
  • Rap CD

• Sometimes in the afternoon sky the moon would pass white as a cloud, furtive, lusterless, like an actress who does not have to perform yet and who, from the audience, in street clothes, watches the other actors for a moment, making herself inconspicuous, not wanting anyone to pay attention to her.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Actors
  • Moon
  • Perform

• I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers.

  

  Eric Schlosser
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Abuse

• I don't really enjoy being the center of attention; I find it hard.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Attention

• I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

  

  George Combe
  • Lost
  • Attention
  • Air

• I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

  

  James Ellroy
  • School
  • High
  • Attention

• For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Internet
  • Advent

• Music is always occurring. It is just a matter of marketing, attention, and many other factors, that determines whether people will hear these songs or not.

  

  Judy Collins
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

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