Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley Bassey

You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.

Seth

If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth.

Neil Postman

Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

Sandra Cisneros

What I've learned is, if I have to go out and speak, the best way to get people's attention is to tell them a story, tell them a story that came from my corazón.

Sade Adu

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

Robert Evans

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Tia Carrere

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

Tatiana Maslany

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.

Simone Weil

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Tony Campolo

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.

Shirley Temple

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

Shawn Johnson

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Interest and attention will insure to you an education.

Rihanna

Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

Victoria Moran

Just remember that those things that get attention flourish.

Steve Albini

You can't help noticing an amazing ass. Pretty naked ladies will always get my attention. Revealingly dressed good-looking women will always get my attention, at least for a moment.

Steven Morrissey

I'm dramatically underexposed. I demand more attention!

Red Smith

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

T. Harv Eker

Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

T. D. Jakes

We pay far too much attention to externals.

Taylor Kitsch

I'm never going to be like, 'Oh, this attention from women sucks.' It's flattering 99 percent of the time.

Tyler Blackburn

Obviously when I'm put in a situation where there is a lot of attention on me, it's this weird dichotomy - I like it, because I feel like I'm a natural born performer. But I do feel the most vulnerable.

Tyler Hoechlin

I've seen things that should get a lot of attention get no attention. I've seen things that were not supposed to be a big deal become the biggest thing in the world.

Truman Capote

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)

Reid Hoffman

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

Richard Widmark

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

Sue Bird

When you have teammates just as talented as you, it's kind of weird to get all the attention.

Sophia Myles

I've chosen not to talk about my really private life to the press - I've never invited a huge amount of attention.

W. S. Merwin

There are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.

Twyla Tharp

I've survived inattention. I hope to God I survive attention.

William Golding

I wouldn't have thought that the techniques of story-telling, which is what the novel is after all, can vary much because there are two things involved.There's a story and there's a listener, whose attention you have to keep. Now the only way in which you can keep a reader's attention to a story is in his wanting to know what is going to happen next. This puts a fairly close restriction on the method you must use.