Attention Quotes
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I came at a time where male artists where dominating, so I had to do something quick to get people's attention. I wanted to let people know that women artists can hold their own compare to the men. Sex got their attention, while I open the road for the other female artists.
Marion Hall
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Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.
Alexander von Humboldt
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By 2003, if you didn't understand that the United States was inflicting torture on those deemed enemy combatants, you weren't paying much attention.
Jacob Weisberg
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I realised when I sang at family parties and Christmases I'd suddenly get everyone's attention, and, being the youngest of three, I thought what a brilliant attention-seeking ploy it was.
Pauline Matthews
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Terrorism gets people's attention.
Lowell Bergman
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All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
Payne Stewart
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Oft the hoursFrom morn to eve have stolen unmark'd away,While mute attention hung upon his lips.
Mark Akenside
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Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.
Clive Thompson
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I'm definitely focusing all of my attention on acting. Modeling comes up by default, and I love it - of course I think that it's great - but I'm definitely focusing all of my attention on acting.
Jamie Clayton
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If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.
Phil Jackson
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Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.
Jeffrey Toobin
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Lennon was not very fond of me. Lennon didn't like to be around somebody else who was likely to be the center of attention and didn't like being on deck with somebody who was intellectually as hot as he was.
Peter Fonda
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My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.
Philip Pullman
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I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great story. I've always been much more of a listener.
Emun Elliott
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I do think that you're starting to see young people pay attention to some longterm issues that they feel Washington has neglected.
Barack Obama
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Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes
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We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.
John Pistole
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You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.
Chick Corea
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience.
John P. Kotter
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Coach is a straightforward guy. If you're not paying attention to detail, that burns him up. But he'll also be the first to throw his arm around you. He's a fun guy to be around.
Chuck Darby
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Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.
Emily Ratajkowski
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It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.
Anna Chlumsky