Attention Quotes - Page 53

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!

It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.

When you're doing a television series, unless you really pay attention to your life, it doesn't leave very much time for anything else.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

Things are better now that the attention has subsided a bit, and I'm happier. Now I can concentrate on what I'm supposed to do, that is, training and running. Despite everything that's happened, I feel like I'm still the same person.

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

Believe me, when my ‘personal endowments’ are being discussed, I always pay attention.” ~ Cam Rohan

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.

His (Frank Sinatra) attention span was not long, shall we say.

Influence is providing attention and value to others.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

I was the youngest of the house that I grew up in, so I feel like as the youngest you have it pretty good. At the same time, I guess I required a lot of attention, being afraid of so many different things. So I was never seeking attention; I wanted the opposite. I just knew that when I saw Michael Jackson on the television screen once, it was, like, "That's it! That's what I'm doing for the rest of my life." I never questioned that.