Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Olynyk

I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

James Gleick

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

Jane McGonigal

When my life is stressful, my favorite game is called 'Pop It,' where you pop balloons and prizes fall out. It's a five-minute game that focuses my mind and gives me extra attention when I'm stressed.

We had a (Nissan) 350Z roadster and the seat controls are under the right side bolster of the seat. We'll comment on it. Or on the BMW, we faulted the I-Drive system for its user interface. Or they'll look at how you switch from AM to FM on the radio. On some cars, the engineers found they had to take their attention away from driving.

Lupe Fiasco

Sometimes I do feel hopeless when I look out and scream out through my music, and I scream out through these interviews, and I scream out to people to kind of get their attention back on the things that are meaningful. There's people dying on the streets of Chicago - young people, young men and women who are losing their lives.

Dick Cheney

I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says.

We did this just to bring attention to our fight with Northwest Airlines.

We didn't play well and they did -- that's a nasty combination. We ran into a Forest Grove team that is fighting for a playoff spot, had a week off and I think we got their attention last time we played them.

Linda Ellerbee

We are heading in a lot of dangerous ways. The Chinese character for danger is also for opportunity, so it's not necessarily bad. It's just that as journalists, I believe we have to pay particular attention here.

Michael Connelly

We are greatly encouraged by the success and national attention Massachusetts has earned when it decided that health insurance is something no one should go without. We want to build on that progress and keep this important dialogue going in order to make covering the uninsured a national priority.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

Vikas Swarup

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I had one of my best years in 1991; I was 31. I made a renewed effort to work harder. I got better at my diet. I paid attention to how much sleep I got. I was always someone of routine. I became more strict.

Billy Porter

I took 'Grease' to play my trump card, my voice, and get attention that would lead to auditions for serious work like 'Angels in America.' But I backed myself into a corner with 'Grease,' and it took me 17 years to get out.

Dax Shepard

The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

Aerin Lauder

You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders in beauty and fashion.

Al Roker

The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

We're kind of scurrying around. It's very fluid. Certainly this has gotten all of the nursing home profession's attention after Katrina, and so everybody's making plans to evacuate. But there are a lot of difficulties on having enough resources for transportation.

The only down side is it seems like you've been practicing forever, when it really hasn't been. It just feels that way. This week, they're paying attention to what you're talking about. Everything picks up a notch because you're going into the home stretch and finally playing a game.

Rick Adelman

We still control our own destiny and teams still have to catch us. In the past seven games, we haven't been paying attention to detail. Guys were trying to do it themselves. We wanted to come out with a different energy and we showed it tonight. Hopefully we can build off this, but we'll find out at Golden State (on Friday).

This name gives us a blank slate. It does connote geography but it's not being used. It gives us the opportunity to attract attention and define on our own terms just what the geography represents.

Anthony Johnson

When you see (Detroit) on the schedule, you kind of circle those dates because our fans and their fans really pay attention to this game. There was a lot of excitement out there.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.

Nancy Kress

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

Lucy Punch

I can see why people love the idea of a big white wedding - it is a day when they are the centre of attention and get to wear a beautiful dress. But that sounds awful to me because that is like getting ready to walk down the red carpet.

Misha Collins

A lot of times I think the cast members, the lead characters in a show really set the tone for the show. On some shows, the stars of the show will just be whining and complaining and spending the whole time texting their boyfriends on their Blackberries, and there's just no attention given to the work.

Natalie du Toit

My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.

Nancy Jo Sales

We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.

Frank Langella

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

Robert Hall

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow.

Damien Chazelle

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

Patrick Murphy

The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.