Top 300 Pay Attention Quotes

I don’t pay attention to which foot I’m developing. I just train normally and use both feet. I’d say I’m right-footed.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

You’re always going to have people who disagree and hate on you. That’s just part of being in entertainment. I’ve been raised in this business, so I’m used to it, I don’t pay attention.

I pay attention to every minute of the day.

Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not true. I don’t read or pay attention to it.

It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It’s kind of this cliche. It seems like the only time adults pay attention is with that angle.

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

It’s important to be gentle about my routines. I’ve learned that the hard way. When I’m really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I’ve had to learn how to pay attention. It’s a kind of mind-set.

I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

I don’t pay attention to definitions or titles or try to fit within them.

All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it. You just need to pay attention to it and gain experience over the years.

I find it strange that our children, teenagers are kept captive listening in classrooms. Earlier education was for career and livelihood. Now, it has to rise to solve the crisis facing the earth and nations have to pay attention to the education of children to save this planet.

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

When someone is there for you, has your back, that’s somebody to pay attention to because that’s a friend.

I’ve learned you have to pay attention and stick with the game plan.

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

I don’t really pay attention to much online.

My favorite films, I would put my answering machine up to the television set and hit record. I’d tape my favorite movies and then I could go back and listen to them again. I only had the soundtrack, I didn’t have the visuals. But I think it made me really pay attention to the soundtracks.

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. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.

The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It’s simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

It’s good to aggravate people a little. It makes them pay attention.

If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who’s 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you’ll find that he’s the main reason why you’re losing, which is absurd for me.

I try not to pay attention to talk of comparisons. I only want to focus on myself. It is good to hear that people are talking like that, but the truth is I am not at Cruyff’s level of talent, and I never will be, so it is not something I think about.

Paying attention to what we allow ourselves to pay attention to is a tricky thing. It’s like being in two places at once but completely worth the discipline. We can react mindlessly or respond mindfully. It’s up to us.

I barely pay attention to awards and nominations, and whether they are fair or unfair.

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn’t gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it’s going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.

In Canada, we didn’t really pay attention to American hardcore outside of maybe Minor Threat. It was all about British punk.

I almost never go to news sites – it’s overwhelming how much content is out there. But I will pay attention to what my friends are picking up and sharing.

I’m not saying ‘I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.’ We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.

I think you just have to cross your fingers that there’s enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.

There’s a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.

We’ve always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we’re always on the road. The most difficult part is that time passes by so quickly. It’s hard to pay attention to your normal life because shows are all-encompassing.

I am just always trying to pay attention to how to communicate things that may not always be the hot topic issues and ways they can be entertaining and engaging. That’s what I think has always been my passion, even if it comes to the type of music that I do.

‘Spinal Tap’ influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.

When you are adopted and you realize that someone gave you a gift, you pay attention to things very clearly. You realize how lucky you are.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

It’s hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

Fans are crazy, so I try not to pay attention to most of the negativity that they bring up.

I believe God talks to us in mysterious ways. I knew if I did not pay attention to His message, I was going to do life in prison, or I was going to end up dead.

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music – not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that’s like, ‘Damn, this sounds like my music!’

When you check out at PetSmart, the cashier usually asks you if you want to donate money to PetSmart charities to help save the animals. Usually, we’re so busy we don’t even pay attention.

When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there – even, or especially, claiming that they don’t want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you’re like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

I have made a promise to myself that I will have no limitations as an actor. I have realised I have to pay attention to the commercials or the business aspect of cinema, but deep inside, I am purely an artiste.

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I’d get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I’ve since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.

We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that’s what I tend to write toward.

Something’s going to happen that’s going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

I really like United States so I pay attention to what goes on here. I don’t really pay attention to what goes on overseas or in other countries, unless it affects us, then I’ll pay attention.

I think its very easy to try to launch things too quickly and do things too quickly and not pay attention to the details along the way.

Trolling never bothers me. There are so many times when I don’t even pay attention to it.

My job is to pay attention to my children’s genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

I think what everybody really wants is attention; we just want someone to pay attention to us.

I’m trying to be the messenger for the people that pay attention to me. And those people I want to help inspire because a lot of people maybe think it’s – they’re too cool for school. That’s all I can ever do.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-generation system. Our appliances will pay attention to our preferences.

I don’t pay attention to the number of birthdays. It’s weird when I say I’m 53. It just is crazy that I’m 53. I think I’m very immature. I feel like a kid. That’s why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can’t do certain things anymore – like doing the plank for 10 minutes.

When men are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

We’re all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven’t really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

I think people look at me different when they see I’m dressed well. They pay attention. They know I’m about something.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

It’s a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.

I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes – the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else’s.

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother’s keepers. We are our sister’s keepers.

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn’t pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn’t put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I have big plans to read books over again, but I’ve never re-read anything. The only books I’ve read over again are the books I didn’t pay attention to in high school.

All I can do is pay attention, listen to what people in Minnesota are saying and do everything I can to bring that voice to Washington.

When I was playing, I kept my calorie intake up with protein shakes and chicken, fish and steak. Now there’s no real diet, but I pay attention to what I eat.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women’s rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.

I’m already self-motivated, so I don’t really pay attention what people are saying.

Well, that’s what life is – this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.

We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned. At the most basic level, we remember when we pay attention. We remember when we are deeply engaged.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that’s our future. What’s in the hearts and minds of our children is what’s in our future.

In wrestling, there’s a shelf life, and some wrestlers don’t pay attention to the shelf life.

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don’t be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

For me that’s the magic of the printed page – we don’t have to pay attention to the passage of time and focus in on the realities of these characters at a specific age or at a specific time in their lives, and we can play with that to our hearts’ content.

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

Every team has a play style, in my opinion. The video speaks for itself; that’s what we always pay attention to.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don’t need much help.

The problem… is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.

Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do.

My jokes have definitely changed. ‘SNL’ has helped with that, because when you’re on ‘SNL,’ you have to kind of pay attention to the news. I feel like my material has gotten smarter now.

I don’t have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

All enterprises and major players need to pay attention to the needs of the government of the country of which they are a part. At one level, it would be unconscionable for a company like Huawei not to be responsive to Chinese national-security needs.

With music, you’re laying it all out there. They’re judging you right away, and you can lose them quick. With the comedy, you’ve always got another joke to redeem yourself. Or, even if you’ve only got one joke, at least the punch line is at the end. Then they have to at least pay attention until the end.

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: ‘Keep trying, don’t give up, don’t be discouraged, don’t pay attention to detractors.’ Everyone knows this.

Ryan Gosling’s, like, my crush, but I don’t really pay attention to his personal style.

Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don’t pay attention and reverse our course.

I’m not deceived by people, because I don’t pay attention to people.

If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks – I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.

I don’t pay attention to Australia, mate.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn’t pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

It’s always the guys who have absolutely nothing to give that start screaming and yelling about their makeup and trailers. It’s a diversion so you don’t pay attention to them, because they stink!

I pay attention to the sun. I’ve worn sunglasses while I play, for years, and apply sunscreen. No matter where I’m playing, there’s a rain suit in my bag, too.

Pay attention to your breathing.

I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don’t have to think about much at all, as it turns out. It’s very easy. And then when you step into the director’s role, there’s this whole universe of stuff that you have to pay attention to that’s amazing to me.

I got into this business when I was 22 years old, and I didn’t have a woke bone in my body. And all I wanted to do was be on screen and for people to pay attention to me, but we evolve and our cause evolves and the conversations today are certainly very different.

I couldn’t pay attention to a novel; I’d get three pages in and couldn’t remember what it was about.

Pay attention to not only what you’re saying or doing but who you’re saying and doing it with.

I think a lot of us think we’ve failed when we’ve put the weight back on, but when this happens. you have to pay attention because you can actually learn something. You didn’t fail. You just need to stay conscious and know where you went wrong and try again.

There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.

It’s hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don’t think it’s necessarily broader or smarter.

I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.

Similar to how ‘Abolish ICE’ rang the bell on this huge crisis on immigration, unifying around not taking corporate-PAC money gets everybody to pay attention to big money in politics.

It makes you a better player when you’re around better competition. If you pay attention, you can learn something.

My weight fluctuates between 205 and 220, depending on how much I pay attention to it.

Some entertainers don’t pay attention to what’s going on around them.

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

I don’t really pay attention to the news or stuff like that or what’s going on in politics.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don’t regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can’t have it all.

I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.

You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it’s not something I pay attention to.

For every R. Kelly or Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein, there’s, you know, the owner of the grocery store, the coach, the teacher, the neighbor, who are doing the same things. But we don’t pay attention until it’s a big name. And we don’t pay attention ’til it’s a big celebrity.

At Gallaudet, deafness isn’t an issue. You don’t even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn’t get the same access.

It’s really annoying when you’re trying to get to know someone and she doesn’t pay attention to you because she’s obsessed with her phone.

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn’t be about the money.

The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don’t pay attention or bear witness to it. It’s part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It’s important to put that on the page.

When you’re short on sleep, you’re short on patience. You’re ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It’s harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.

We are all connected. The pain and suffering of others is yours also, on some level, whether you choose to pay attention or not. The reason we can’t achieve total bliss is because you’re not here solo.

We’re not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it’s not about appearances. It’s about effectiveness.

I don’t even pay attention to the odds, to be honest with you.

When you’re a litigator, you write so much, so many briefs, over and over again, that you’re kind of really focused on one document and have draft after draft, and really pay attention to every single word.

Usually I try not to pay attention to the charts, because I don’t want to be like, ‘Damn, I came in at Number 237.’

If there’s one thing that lawyers know about reading documents, it’s to pay attention to the footnotes. In fact, oftentimes the most important information is buried there.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

A director’s job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid comments around the Internet.

Did Amy Winehouse have a hit single from ‘Frank?’ I love ‘Frank,’ but people didn’t really pay attention to her until ‘Back to Black.’ So no, I haven’t had a hit single. I personally am not bothered about that.

If I put my name on something, I’m going to be involved. I’m not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.

Brazil needs the individual creativity of Neymar, Philippe Coutinho, Douglas Costa. But it needs the collective creativity that sometimes people don’t pay attention to.

I wouldn’t describe the artist Theaster Gates as a mentor, but I pay attention and keep my ears open when I’m with him.

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

Men are naive to their bodies. They don’t pay attention to their skin like women do.

We don’t really try to pay attention to the score, we just try to play to win.

People in New York pay attention to national issues – a huge percentage of people.

I pay attention to the things that nobody else is looking at.

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I’m not obsessive over it.

In order to stay ahead of the young talent, you have to pay attention. You have to see what young talents are doing, and I see what a lot of young talents are doing.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

I don’t really pay attention to the long-term, I take short steps – that is what I have done through my whole career, from non-league to the Premier League.

There’s a lot of other movies I like, but I don’t even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it’s one of the most important story decisions an author makes.

If you stay very focused on customers and customer success, people pay attention to that – and in turn, they also want that same type of success.

I don’t keep a lot of the trophy stuff. I don’t pay attention to it.

I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.

We’ve always been huge fans of the Dixie Chicks. They talked about subject matter that people didn’t necessarily want to talk about and made people pay attention to issues.

I don’t pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we’re doing well, you guys are going to be there.

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

Created by writer Beau Willimon, who’s worked on several political campaigns, ‘House of Cards’ cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that’s warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention.

We want you to pay attention.

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I’ve been trying to do that. It’s really made a major difference for me. I’m a happier person.

As lawmakers, our job is to listen to our constituents. If our phones are ringing off the hook with people demanding to know where we stand on an issue, we pay attention.

I’m not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.

I worked two days in Texas and two days in Hollywood on ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ and that was it. I had no idea how it was going to turn out. And when I saw it, I was so upset, or fascinated, or something, by the sight of myself on the screen that I could hardly pay attention to the rest of the movie.

When I started to work in the kitchen, there’s not a lot of women that were working and I didn’t try to pay attention to that.

I don’t know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, ’cause I’m my own artist. I try to build my own sound.

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice – it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

When you change defenses, it’s the same thing a lot of times. But different terminology means different things in that new defense. So you have to get accustomed to that. You have to study. Get in your books and pay attention.

I don’t pay attention to what people think. I don’t really care what people think. All that matters is my teammates and my coaches.

People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

I don’t know where I’m rated. I don’t pay attention to that. I’m really so just all into my craft. It’s not a contest. I try to play the best.

I pay attention to how I look but I don’t let it go too far.

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it’s very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

’24’ is not an anti-government show, really. We’ve always relied on Jack to fight for the greater good in his own way, and at times, ’24’ is very patriotic. For me personally, I definitely pay attention to things in a different way.

I mean, defense to me is something that when you watch a game you don’t really pay attention to defense unless you’re very – unless you’re a specialist.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

When you’re not experiencing your food, that’s when it’s harder to pay attention to when you’re full, and that’s what being satisfied really means.

You’ve got to get your mind connected to the workout. Pay attention to what your body’s doing. It’s about connecting mind and the body. Visualize the muscles moving.

I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they’ll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it’s done to us.

I don’t pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the intensity that I play with.

You just keep shining a light and hoping people will start to pay attention.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

I don’t purposely push the boundaries… I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much ‘difficult material’ as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you’ve earnt it.

I don’t typically pay attention to most things in life, let alone award season. Not because I think it’s silly. I just don’t typically get caught up in it.

Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn’t pay attention to any of it. I’d get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.

You know there’s a lot of haters out there that are jealous. We know how hard we work. We don’t pay attention to it. If you did you’d lose your mind.

Now, all writing – all the arts – are a form of ‘Pay attention to me,’ but there’s also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I’ve made. And then pay attention to me.

What we should care about is health – reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is ‘normal.’ A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.

It’s absolutely true we have to pay attention to whether low-income people of any race are able to access quality, higher education.

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention… ‘Life at These Speeds’ has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.

Don’t plant too deeply. Pay attention to the directions on the seed packets as far as how deep and how close together to plant the seeds.

I don’t pay attention to celebrities. I don’t photograph them. They don’t dress so… interestingly. They have stylists. I prefer real women who have their own taste.

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it’s very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don’t.

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

When women wear jeans people are tempted to pay attention to what is beyond it thus forcing them to do undesirable things.

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you’ve already done the first and most critical thing, you’ve honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you’ve actually changed the world.

The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn’t hard to find, just hard to like – she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.

The more I pay attention, the more I’m in tune with my fans and myself. It’s how I keep raising up.

I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven’t watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.

It’s my life’s aim to make people understand the job of an actor, what they go through, and why they are such a protected species. People see the glamour part of it. But there’s so much stress that often you don’t even pay attention to the luxuries.

The ballot box and the voters and how they pay attention and the decisions they make are really what should define term limits.

I really try to ask myself the question of nine. Will this matter in nine minutes, nine hours, nine days, nine weeks, nine months or nine years? If it will truly matter for all of those, pay attention to it.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Particularly women need to pay attention to what is unique to their own personal biology and emotional systems, and not deny it.

That’s the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there’s no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego’s reaction. That’s what takes people out of the fight half the time.

Nothing says, ‘I pay attention to detail!’ like footwear flattery from a boy.

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.

Pay attention to the big themes because that’s what will help you earn ten times your money.

I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate ‘we’ and ‘outside’ or ‘us and them.’ I think that that’s something that we really, really need to pay attention to.

I took to heart the instructions my father drilled into my head. Respect the customer. Pay attention to her. Take her package to her car. You broke your neck to get what she wanted because you never knew when the next customer would come along.

Keep your blood pressure under control and pay attention to your urine. If it’s foamy, that’s not a good sign, and you need to check out your kidneys.

Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I’m very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere. I read the newspapers voraciously, so I know what’s going on in real crime. I pay attention to the strange stories people tell me, and I also read a lot of scientific and forensic journals.

I think that every homeowner has a fascination with real estate. You can’t deny that it’s such a huge player in our finances. It’s probably the most expensive thing you’ll ever purchase, so you’re forced to pay attention.

A movie is painting, it’s photography, it’s literature – because you have to have the screenplay – it’s music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it’s a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

I don’t really pay attention to WWE stuff as it’s just not for me.

If I’m writing a book, and I’m warned, ‘Oh, this is unsaleable, you need to make it shorter,’ or, ‘It has to be this, or that,’ I’m proud to say I don’t pay attention.

A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren’t thrillers, and they don’t move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.

When you are ‘world building,’ people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

The older you get, it is harder to prepare physically, even if you have all the experience in the world. You’re more sore the next day, you can’t pack in as much, and you have to train smarter. You have to pay attention to more subtle things like your warmup routine or core work.

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

These days, I pay attention to my eating habits and avoid junk food, but looks are not that important to be a good actor.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we’re not comfortable, we don’t really show you a lot.

One thing I always think about is, at the end of the day, nobody really cares about you as much as they do about themselves. It’s a very reassuring thing, in a good way. Pay attention to yourself, and use that energy and put it towards yourself.

In Montreal, I kept thinking, ‘Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!’

We had to cope with the media writing things which were not true, which were insulting. At around 13 I decided I was just not going to pay attention.

I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

We’ve forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we’ve forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved.

The strength of my mother is something I didn’t pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who was part of the Great Migration, who was part of a Jim Crow south, who said, ‘I’m getting my kids out of here. I’m creating opportunities for these young people by any means necessary.’

I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.

I’ve spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel ‘Empire’ is helping to reprogram us back to that place where we pay attention and invest emotionally in the records and the artists.

Once people learn what global warming means, they start to pay attention.

Women pay attention to how men drive because it’s a good indicator of what kind of character you have. They want someone who’s going to be intelligent and cautious and assertive and confident when you need to be, but not overly aggressive and reckless, and also not timid and overly paranoid.

If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don’t pay attention to how things move through space.

Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.

I won’t complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, ‘Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!’

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

Some people kind of get lost in what everyone else is doing and not pay attention to themselves, and I think I’m one where I pay attention to myself and can set the example for the people coming up.

I pay attention to my nails. I have had this particular German nail kit for years, and I take it everywhere. If I don’t trim and file my nails, they turn into talons. I cook a lot, too, and I don’t like to see bits of food stuck under them.

The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you’ve got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they’re competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you’re actually trying to do, like getting your work done.

I’m not a celebrity whose face is recognised everywhere I go, like Gary Lineker, but my voice does make people sit up and pay attention from time to time.

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

I think bubbles are things people see with 20/20 hindsight. If you look at any particular period where prices go up and then they go down, you will always find people who predicted that they would go down. Those are the people you pay attention to.

If you receive a whole string of bad reviews, you have to say, ‘O.K., maybe there’s something here we should pay attention to.’

When I’m alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner’s orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

My sisters play ball. My older brother, he’s in my ear. My younger brother, he’s in my ear. Critiquing me on my game. That’s who I mostly pay attention to.

The dot stands for ‘detail’ – always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I’m conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

I always stand behind the things that I do. I don’t listen to those who downplay things nor do I pay attention to those who grovel at our feet and tell us that we’re the greatest. For me, that is just noise.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don’t.

I do everything with a purpose, and I don’t really pay attention to the negativity.

I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I’m a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I like to pay attention to that detail.

I guess I’m just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

I pay attention to everything now – the taste of bread, the taste of water.

There is an actor’s responsibility in presenting the emotional content of the lyrics to an audience. But whether you do that in a straightforward fashion or an ironic fashion or a blase fashion is all about opportunities, and singers are missing opportunities as artists if they don’t pay attention to the lyric.

I don’t pay attention to how I feel about anything.

If you don’t pay attention to me, I’m going to make you pay attention to me. I’ve always been that way.

I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college – I still can’t pay attention – and then had a series of day jobs. But always, continuously, I have written.

Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven’t shared in that bounty, and if we don’t pay attention to their concerns, all the political favor for open markets will dry up.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don’t even pay attention to things you don’t.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

If you don’t love your job, you can’t maintain the discipline in playing that many years. It starts with the love, discipline and taking care of your body. Understanding the older you get, you have to pay attention to every single detail.

If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.

When I was young, even though I received so much love, I used to pay attention to people who disliked me. That’s why my lyrics were so sharp and dark.

I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That’s what I’m paid to do. It’s somebody else’s job to market them, and it’s somebody else’s job to pay attention to the ratings, because if I paid attention to all that, my head would explode.

I’m English enough to feel something of a gut-reaction to modernism, to continental philosophising and anything that smacks of a refusal to pay attention to the forensics: the empirical facts on the ground.

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, ‘What happens next?’ If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren’t going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren’t going to pay attention. That’s as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you.

I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It’s got theatre, it’s got young, pretty people… And it’s got money!

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don’t pay attention to anything unless it’s positive.

Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it’s just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.

I don’t want to have a song like ‘My Humps’ and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

With Manchester United I want to win. I therefore do not pay attention to what happens in other clubs, I’m totally focused on Manchester United.

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that’s when I’d actually sit down and listen. I wouldn’t pay attention in school, or I’d sing in class and get in trouble – I’d always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.

I definitely pay attention to the choices I make. The type of films I enjoy making have directors who I enjoy watching. Ultimately it’s as important to say ‘no’ as it is to say ‘yes.’ Saying ‘no’ is the thing that will ultimately lead you somewhere.

I always have to pay attention to exercise and nutrition.

Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We’re so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what’s going on, and listen.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I don’t really pay attention to which accent I have. I’m in a singular box as an actress.

In entrepreneurial circles, it’s clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination – or whatever you want to label it – is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don’t want it to.

People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one, have no problem with Kanye running for president, because if it’s something that he truly believes in and it can lead to greater good, why not? I’m all for that.

I don’t go there much. You’re thrilled that people would recognize what you’re doing in such a grand kind of way. But, just like you don’t know if anybody’s really going to like what you’re doing when you put a record out or if anybody’s going to pay attention to it, you can’t really go there.

We need to not pay attention to those stupid kids who would drop their food trays on me in the cafeteria. Because, you know what? They don’t matter anymore.

What you look for as a reader is somebody who is going to take you and say, ‘C’mon. Come into the story. I’m going to show you what there is to see.’ The guide who is going to tell you, ‘Pay attention over there,’ or, ‘Do you remember that other thing? Now watch!’

Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.

I don’t really like to pay attention too much to what is being said about me, only because the people closest to me – my parents, family, and friends – know me best. So I feel like their opinions mean more to me than anyone else’s.

That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.

I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them.

I think it’s important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don’t pay attention to the negative.

It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don’t want to be left behind.

The key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes.

What I’m doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It’s how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn’t pay attention to nobody else’s score. I was just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that’s how you create new things.

If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I’m one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It’s tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.