Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janina Gavankar

I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

Shane Carruth

There is commerciality in storytelling, even in a film or a piece of literature. These things exist. That's why stories came to be: to hold attention and, while you're not looking, you'll get hopefully some nutritional value that the author has been working up. That's narrative; that's passing stuff down.

Sharon Salzberg

The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.

Stephan Pastis

I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

Azim Premji

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.

Trai Byers

Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.

We're just trying to make extra history. Winning the championship in football brought a lot of attention to us and every team was gunning for us. It was hard. It took hard work in practice.

Brian Eno

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

Bret Easton Ellis

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

Bob Dylan

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

Bonnie Raitt

The one thing I know is that if you're not paying attention, it will come back to bite you.

Eckhart Tolle

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Beyonce Knowles

When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.

David Walliams

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

David Walliams

I was the kind of person who got bullied and loved the attention of it.

David Brooks

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

Beatrice Dalle

But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

Barbara Tuchman

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

Diane Ackerman

We are defined by how we place our attention.

Daniel Goleman

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Elizabeth Strout

I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within the realm of being psychologically and emotionally true.

There is a sense this year that anything is possible, that they have the rapt attention of the leadership.

There is a pretty good supporting cast. But she attracts most of the attention because she is good and she is local.

There are some subtle signs of change. People should pay attention to them.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There are some people who are close to him that say that he is just starving for attention and that's the way he gets attention. Other people said, look he's not working and he just feels like he should maybe get involved in politics, ... Instead, I just think that maybe he is jealous that I did jump in. I find it silly, because I respect his work.

Grace Meng

Queens is so often treated as a stepchild and labeled as an outer borough. At the very least, if I could help bring more attention to what we need, and what the federal government needs to do to improve the quality of life of people right here in Queens - any way that I can do that, I'm very happy to do that.

We thought we could spin the news story of a Gregorian chant hit in Europe into something that would catch the attention of the media here, ... We put a big bet on the roulette table. We spent a great deal of money in buying some TV advertising. So, we got the message out there that this thing existed and our distribution company was right there with us and we got the initial distribution.

We really got their attention tonight at halftime. We knew going into the game that they (UTA) was a good rebounding team. Early in the game, we were not getting out and contesting shots and they responded by shooting 62 percent.

Karl Hobbs

We're a different team with Pops in the lineup. He creates so much attention just being on the floor.

We didn't win as early as we should have last year. But this year, everybody's doing a good job, is focused on the little things we need to pay attention to, and hopefully we can carry this momentum through the end of the year.

The fact of the matter is criminals have been operating in seaports a long, long time. The bad guys know how open the system is. The good guys don't seem to have a real command on it here because we haven't paid as much attention to this problem as we need to.

Bruce Springsteen

I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.

James Vincent McMorrow

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.