Attention Quotes - Page 35

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.

Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me.

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

Investors should pay attention not only to whether but also to why current holdings are undervalued. It is critical to know why you have made an investment and to sell when the reason for owning it no longer applies. Look for investments with catalysts that may assist directly in the realization of underlying value. Give reference to companies having good managements with a personal financial stake in the business. Finally, diversify your holdings and hedge when it is financially attractive to do so.

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

If we want to truly live, at some point, we find the dark facts of psychic life demand our full attention.

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

If we are paying attention to something, it's important. That's how we decide to pay attention. But a communicator can reroute our attention to something that isn't important, but make it seem important as a consequence.

Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.

What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.