Attention Quotes
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.
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I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?
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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.
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I don't ever want to seem like I'm trying to command attention through the way I dress - but I have certainly been known to wear everything from a flamboyant suit to something very mellow and classic. I aim to just look and feel confident.
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You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.
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Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.
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Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level; first, between people (interpsychological) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention, to logical memory, and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals.
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I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
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Would you believe that Sammy Davis, Jr. taught me how to sing a ballad? 'You can be in an arena,' he said, 'and you should be able to hold their attention.'
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.