Words matter. These are the best Attention Quotes from famous people such as Nushrat Bharucha, Samuel Smiles, Anohni, Steve Jobs, Jim Goldberg, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people’s attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.
My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.
I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible.
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says – ‘Notice me, feed me, mother me’ – is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded ‘normality’ it has been such ecstasy to escape.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence – a lot passes you by – simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
What makes characters real are details, and if you’re crafting a person from scratch, you’re probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, ‘Does this person bite their nails?’
I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we’re dealing, you know, with MP3s. It’s okay.
Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
People keep pushing me to be the center of attention… I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that’s where you see more.
Small issues are really just large ones that haven’t been accorded the requisite attention.
Most notifications you get are because a machine is trying to get your attention. Those notifications aren’t built to help you live your life. They’re built to get your attention.
When I pay attention to the little details, such as matching accessories to the entire outfit, I only get more confident on stage.
I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background’s social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.
Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
The thing that has not had enough attention is really thinking about how to use modern breeding techniques to really look at the germplasm pools and find ways to actually improve yields and to improve the heat and drought tolerance of these crops.
I think Sam Smith’s dad got a huge loan or something to help his career. Those things can help artists get attention, but I guess my song ‘Say You Won’t Let Go’ proved it’s about the song.
What we want is scientists who don’t become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate, then I won’t pay as much attention to their science.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don’t knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don’t miss anything about it.
Attention is what steers your perceptions; it’s what controls your reality. It’s the gateway to the mind.
I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
A man’s accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
I’ve just got the mindset of really wanting to open the game up to new people. I kind of want to create a massive attention around snooker.
When I was three, I ran over my brother, David. Hed just been born, everybody was paying him attention and being the narcissist that I am, I ran him over with my tricycle.
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.’
You’ve had some terrific print information that gets everybody’s attention in this town.
That’s very nice if they want to publish you, but don’t pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
The three ordinary things that we often don’t pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.
I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.
If people don’t know who you are, they’re not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.
I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren’t paid much attention to, or stories that aren’t on people’s radar.
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.
My mother’s sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.
The true reason of Ms. Rice’s attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men’s 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!’
I crave attention and adventure.
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I’m perched on that edge where I’m getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive – make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.
The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‘Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.’
Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
I would never complain about the position I’m in or the attention I get. At the end of the day, I’m very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don’t see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
I’m not a great reader, believe it or not. It’s not the vocabulary – my father made me read the dictionary when I was little – but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.
My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn’t want to draw attention to herself.
The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
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.