Attention Quotes

• It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.

  

  Banksy
  • House
  • Car
  • Two

• Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.

  

  Jessica Stockholder
  • Attention
  • Focus

• I think I started out just loving the attention. But that's changed into a real love and passion for my profession. Acting has never lost that challenge and excitement for me.

  

  Jane Badler
  • Real
  • Lost
  • Passion

• In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• We're working with NATO, the longest military alliance in the history of the world, to really turn our attention to terrorism.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • History
  • Military

• I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

  

  Steve Aoki
  • Song
  • Interest
  • Resilience

• If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

  

  Brad Bird
  • Attention
  • Space

• People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

  

  A.M. Homes
  • People
  • Attention

• I've never been one to crave attention, which I know means that this is probably the worst career to pick. I get anxious even when people come up to me for pictures sometimes. That's the one thing that makes me hesitant about my future. But I love music too much to not do it.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• 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.

  

  John Spratt
  • Time
  • Children
  • Money

• 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

• 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

• I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Job
  • Waiting

• 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.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Men
  • Enjoy
  • Flattered

• The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

  

  Johnny Manziel
  • Trying
  • Attention

• There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

  

  Anohni
  • People
  • Life
  • Attention

• There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

  

  Bob Hayes
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.

  

  Martha Grimes
  • She
  • Character
  • Attention

• We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Pay
  • Grants
  • Improper

• When a horse offers their face to you, they're interested in what you are, what you're doing. They're paying attention.

  

  Brady Jandreau
  • Attention
  • Horse

• I mean, for Pete’s sake, you can’t get into the military, or used to not be able to get into the military, who knows now, if you had asthma, psoriasis, attention deficit disorder, but we’re going to bring in people with an extremely peculiar and rare mental illness...and have the taxpayers pay for it.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • Attention
  • Military

• The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

  

  Al Roker
  • Good
  • Kitchen
  • Shopping

• For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Different
  • Trying

• I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • God
  • Hope
  • Attention

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