Attention Quotes

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

Jonathan Safran Foer
- Words
- Attention
The PHYSICAL Act gives our schools the flexibility they need to give physical education the attention it deserves in promoting our children's well-being.

Marcia Fudge

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

Lesley Garrett
- Great
- Music
- Important
In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to children who were not white, who were poor, who were disabled, and who were the most vulnerable.Parents didn't think their children would live to adulthood, and the children didn't think they were going to live to adulthood. That's when we started our first gun-violence campaign. We've lost 17 times more young black people to gun violence since 1968 than we lost in all the lynching in slavery.

Marian Wright Edelman
- People
- Live
- Children
The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.

Clint Smith
- Work
- Attention
- Moral
The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor.

George Clooney
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

Leila Josefowicz
- Attention
- Nice
My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

Jim Goldberg
- Attention