Attention Quotes

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

  

  Mark Shields
  • Attention

• I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Parent

• When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.

  

  Claire Coffee
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Rose

• I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Political
  • Science

• Sometimes my life is moving so fast that I forget what's going on. I'm just going with the pace or going with the flow. Like, I don't really stop and try to pay attention to things for too long.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Life
  • Long
  • Stop

• A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Attention
  • Personality

• I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.

  

  Mary Stuart Masterson
  • Attention

• I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, 'I'm getting my kids out of here. I'm creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.'

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • Kids
  • Dance
  • Baseball

• I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dark

• I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Attention

• You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.

  

  Debra Winger
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.

  

  Eric Schlosser
  • People
  • Children
  • Food

• If I need to steal from a difficult spot, I like to use a 'bottom-up' attention strategy to direct the focus.

  

  Apollo Robbins
  • Up
  • Attention
  • Focus

• I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!

  

  Kelly Brook
  • Time
  • Red
  • Promise

• The truth is that both groups want to be noticed. Yet we view a man's desire for attention as a natural instinct; with a woman, we label her a narcissist.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Narcissist

• If anyone has the attention span of a crazed amoeba, they should enjoy all of these episodes!

  

  Gary Owens
  • Span
  • Crazed
  • Amoeba

• I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

  

  Dorothea Dix
  • Attention
  • Obedience
  • Cellars

• I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business... The really savvy folks out there, they don't necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Business
  • Attention

• Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mother's loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mother

• It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

  

  James Gleick
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Technology

• I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Attention

• I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Up
  • Attention

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