Attention Quotes

• As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Words
  • Attention

• It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't know you. You're going to show them what songs you've got. You've got to leave your mark.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Attention
  • Mood

• Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Men
  • Happy

• Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.

  

  John Paulson
  • Up
  • True
  • Stock

• Melbourne, where I grew up, is one of the street art capitals of the world. Something about discovering freshly painted walls always fills me with optimism; it's autonomous and democratic, and reminds me that maybe people are paying attention after all.

  

  Penelope Mitchell
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Whatever is popular deserves attention.

  

  James Mackintosh
  • Attention
  • Popular

• Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Giving
  • Alone
  • Leaving

• The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone's attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Attention
  • Balance

• I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

  

  Brandon Routh
  • Attention
  • Superman

• Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • Care
  • Sick
  • Christ

• I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Attention

• In the larger scale of things, his opinions didn’t count anyhow. The politicians made the decisions, and the voters paid no attention.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Attention

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

  

  Luc Montagnier
  • Attention

• I'm an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Attention

• If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.

  

  Eduard Suess
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Imagine

• Film is like sculpture, writing, acting, technical arts, all sorts of arts. And that's why I wanted to do it for so long, because it would include so many places for attention.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Why

• Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

  

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  • Criticism
  • Craft
  • Adverse

• We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • People
  • Indifference
  • Erotic

• Attention. That's all girls want.

  

  Diplo
  • Attention

• Facebook needs to maintain its vise-like grip on our attention to become a conduit of not only advertising but also commerce, so that it can take a cut of everything.

  

  Om Malik
  • Attention

• The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing in this field one must first gain a clear understnding of the concept "science"; for it is as a part of science that mathematics originally took its place in human thought.

  

  L. E. J. Brouwer
  • Science
  • Foundation
  • Asking

• While it does, and should, feel good to be appreciated by another person, if you are dependent upon their appreciation to feel good, you will not be able to consistently feel good, because no other person has the ability, or a responsibility, to hold you as their singular, positive object of attention. Your Inner Being, however, the Source within you, always holds you, with no exceptions, as a constant object of appreciation. So if you will tune your thoughts and actions to that consistent Vibration of Well-Being flowing forth from your Inner Being-you will thrive under any and all conditions.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Action
  • Responsibility
  • Ability

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

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Attention

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