Attention Quotes - Page 62

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

Whatever claim you use to gain attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete.

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

We must treat others as if they matter, as if they are worthy of care and attention.

Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.

People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.

Not that she didn't love almost every boy she'd ever met, and not that every boy in the world didn't totally love her. It was impossible not to. But she wanted someone to love her and shower her with attention the way only a boy who was completely in love with her could. The rare sort of love. True love. The kind of love she'd never had.

I was just the youngest in the family, and most in desperate need of attention.

I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when they may really want another thing? It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.

I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.

I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.

People pay more attention when they think you’re up to something.

When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

There's no shortage of attention junkies with large breasts in Hollywood but only Michael Moore's are real.

If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.