Attention Quotes

• In George W. Bush's case, the public paid far too little attention to the role of religion in his thinking. Many voters failed to appreciate that while Bush's religious beliefs may be moderate Methodist ones, he was someone who relied on his faith immoderately, as an alternative to rational understanding of complex issues.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Faith

• While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attention from them, and I was the tomboy around. Although I've become an actress today, I still have those traits.

  

  Esha Gupta
  • Growing Up
  • Actress
  • Traits

• My uncle is a mechanic, and I wish I had paid more attention, but I never did.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Attention
  • Wish
  • Uncle

• If you're in music for the right reasons, you don't pay much attention to the grueling industry. For sure, it's great to have your work appreciated, but it should never be the driving factor. If you don't depend solely on affirmation from the industry to continue to find love in what you do, then you can have as along of a career as you want. I've always been in this for the music and that won't change.

  

  Nikki Yanofsky
  • Music
  • Career
  • Appreciated

• Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book

• When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love of the music. I knew I needed to change something because I wasn't having fun and wasn't liking the songs I was writing.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Fun

• I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • World
  • Art
  • Mean

• You get all the girls, ... Maybe I can get all the attention.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Attention
  • Girls

• I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Food
  • Attention

• My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Question

• I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Littles
  • Used
  • Bits

• Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Planning

• Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

  

  Little Richard
  • Mother
  • Company
  • Sing

• Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • People
  • Real
  • Song

• Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Time
  • Why
  • Exercise

• It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Children

• A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • Good
  • Book
  • Picture

• It would've made more sense had we brought another record out between this one and the last one. If you paid close attention, the b-sides, like "Lucky" and "Talk Show Host" have documented that passage.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Attention
  • Record
  • Passage

• 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

• I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

  

  David Macaulay
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• You should not pay too much attention to what anyone tells you, including me. It's very, very important to follow your own map.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Important
  • Attention

• I wanted to use my writing skills to bring attention to the overwhelming needs of the Gulf coast region.

  

  Kirby Larson
  • Writing
  • Attention

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