Attention Quotes - Page 98

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

When a man feels fear without reason, you call him to the attention of a psychiatrist; you are not so careful to protect the meaning, the nature and the dignity of love.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.

Cats would rule the world if they had longer attention spans.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

My whole life everyone always said 'it can't be done', 'you'll never do it', 'you will fail', 'no one has ever gone from Austria and become a Mr Universe, blah, blah, blah', or when I ran for governor people were sceptical. It was 'you're going to lose' and 'people don't take people from show-business seriously in politics'. So, I've heard all the 'it's impossible' thing but I didn't pay any attention because I believed that I could do it.

Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

Silly trends don't last long. A lot of this nonsense that pops up, I don't even really pay attention because it'll be gone in a flash.

Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

My theme song is always: "Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them."

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?

Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.