Attention Quotes - page 99

It would be impossible, I'd just chuck meself into the salt pot or something. I'd hate that, that would be horrible that [Karl answering Ricky's question of how he would get Suzanne's attention in the Kitchen if he were a slug]. (Karl Pilkington)
After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.
George Clooney
I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.
George Clooney
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
Pope John XXIII
... love is deep attention, deep compassion...
Orhan Pamuk
I was sick of people making fun of my hair and so I cut it off and I've got much more attention than ever before. It was like when Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1906 - three times more people came to see where it used to be.
Emo Philips
Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.
Julian Huxley
What you put your attention on grows strong in your life.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I never felt like I was in the grime scene...I was the outsider. So when I veered away from it, I didn't feel like I was leaving the circle – I felt like I was never in it...No one paid me any attention...I had to do everything on my own.
AJ Tracey
Attention vermin, you are in the presence of a colossus.
Jared Hess
For my part, I spent three years reading the history and literature of the Civil War, with special attention to that of the losing side. The people who emerged were human, all-too-human, but there was still the mystery of the encompassing passion which held them together, and this I have not yet penetrated. But in a dozen various ways I came to recognize myself in the past, which is at least an important piece of self-knowledge. (Richard Weaver)
Pay less attention to what you HEAR about someone, and more to what you LEARN about them... as you make the EFFORT.
Og Mandino
I am most indebted to E N Parker for calling my attention to Maunder's papers, and for personal encouragement in all the work reported here.
John A. Eddy
If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?
Kevin Spacey
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
Kevin Spacey
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.
Kevin Spacey
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
Kevin Spacey
I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!
Kelly Brook
The money is a confession of weakness. They have to buy women's attention. It's not a sign of power; it's a sign of weakness.
Camille Paglia
I'm really conflicted about my role as a front-person. I hate the attention.
Juliana Hatfield
Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works. (Liz Phair)
The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
Wilson Mizner
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
Bell hooks
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.
Will Self
If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
Bill Nye