Attention Quotes - page 2

Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. (Ray Charles)
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
Alan Perlis
What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.
Augusten Burroughs
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
Pierre Loti
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Adam Ant
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
Bradley Whitford
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
David Ogden Stiers
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
David Trimble
The living deserve attention, too. (Alice Sebold)
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flannery O’Connor
Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.
Charlie Huston
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Salma Hayek
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.
William Hazlitt
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
Paulo Coelho
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
José Ortega y Gasset
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
Thornton Wilder
Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.
Raymond Chandler
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. (Herbert Simon)
Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.
Adam Ferguson
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
Samuel Johnson
There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.
Thom Yorke
Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
Ambrose Bierce