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Attention Quotes

He learned to become the killer. The man who needs to succeed at all costs, who recognizes that other people are expendable, who does not need to take responsibility, who will do anything to get attention, financial rewards, and to “win.”

– Mary Trump

On what Donald Trump learned from his father Fred.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience’s attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

– Henry Rollins

An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.

– Gretchen Rubin

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.

– Gong Li

Anybody that pays attention to hate really is wasting their time. I don’t subscribe. I don’t buy in.

– Guy Fieri

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.

– Greg Poehler

Mindfulness means being aware of how you’re deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

– Howard Rheingold

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

– Henry Miller

The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

– George Richards Minot

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

– Howie Mandel

When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.

– Henry B. Eyring

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

– Hilary Mantel

Low interest rates are usually attributed to low inflation, weak economic growth and super easy monetary policy. But there’s another deep-seated factor that doesn’t get much attention: demographics.

– Greg Ip

If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.

– Greg Boyle

I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

– George Combe

Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort.

– Georgia Salpa

I got on stage for the first time when I was seven. From seven until I was about nine it was probably more to do with just being on stage and having the attention.

– Gemma Ward

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

– Howard Schultz

Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you’re going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.

– Gail Kelly

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

– Herbert A. Simon

Ships are like children: they need individual attention.

– Helmut Sohmen

Vegas has the Whitman’s Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn’t shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

– Hal Sparks

When the United States media is paying attention, that’s when you’re really representing your country.

– Hannah Kearney

My laziness is really profound. I’m really interested in where it comes from – it almost feels chemical. And we’ve all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

– Hugh Grant

I’ve never been interested in the event when I’m the center of attention.

– Helmut Lang

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

– Herman Kahn

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

– Grizz Chapman

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.

– George Vancouver

There’s an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn’t mean everybody does.

– Grace Park

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I’m paying attention.

– Greg Maddux

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